Jung Chang, whose lifetime’s writing has informed so much opinion about Mao’s cultural revolution outside of China, says “In China now the repression is the worst it’s been since Mao’s death in 1976.” Speaking at
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Wow! Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? has been shortlisted for an award from the Association for International Broadcasters. Making the documentary led me to a trove of radio and TV programmes broadcast abroad to teach English that I and most people in the UK had never heard before. #BBCSounds

After long negotiations in 2015, solving Greece’s debt crisis came down to 17 hours of talks between EU leaders. Greece’s then finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos tells me what happened behind closed doors in the early hours #bbcworldservice #Greece

Delighted that Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? is a Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week. So many World Service gems uncovered including China’s Follow Me. Radio 4, Saturday at 20:00