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Tue 30 Oct 2012 00:30 BBC Radio 4
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Book of the Week, Tombstone Episode 1 of 5
"I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death and perhaps for myself for writing this book."
Yang Jishen's book is banned in China. It is a passionate and angry account of one of the 20th century's most shocking man-made disasters. Based on an array of new sources and personal testimonies and written by someone who was a Communist Party insider with remarkable access to official archives, Tombstone is as significant and powerful a work as Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.
Read by David Yip.
Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4Mon 29 Oct 2012 09:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only
BBC Radio 4Tue 30 Oct 2012 00:30 BBC Radio 4
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