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Newsflash from the Far East

Duration:: 10 minutes

First broadcast:: Friday 29 May 2009

Clive James observes that while democracy is the right system for governing a country, it's the wrong system for choosing a professor of poetry.

BBC Radio 4Fri 29 May 2009 20:50 BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4Sun 31 May 2009 08:50 BBC Radio 4

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