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Radio 4,13 May 2024,42 mins

Series China

The Life and Times of Chairman Mao

The Invention Of...

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Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel east to tell the story of China - what it is and where it came from. "Twentieth century China is the most extraordinary place, and Mao is at the heart of nearly all of it." With the help of Tania Branigan, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution; plus Chris Buckley, Chief China correspondent of the New York Times, Frances Wood, Paul French, Ian Johnson, the author of Sparks, and Jonathan Fenby, former editor of the South China Morning Post. The producer for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ studios is Miles Warde.

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