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The Road from Tiananmen
Tuesday 19 February 2008 9:00-9:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Tuesday 19 February 2008 21:30-21:58 (Radio 4 FM)
John Simpson reports on modern China.
1/2: The Road from Tiananmen. Having witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he meets former students who were there with him. How have their lives changed since? Some talk of new comforts and freedoms, others talk of revolution. Simpson looks at the legacy of Tiananmen and asks why he got it so wrong when he predicted regime change.
