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The Dragon and the Bear

on BBC Radio 4 FM

After seven and a half years as the BBC's
Correspondent in Peking and Moscow. Philip
Short contrasts life in China and the Soviet Union - and its likely development during the 1980s after Mao and Brezhnev - in a series of five talks. based on his forthcoming book. 2: Hitches and Commissars
Love and fear among the rural poor.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE

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