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The History Hour: China's Barefoot Doctors

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China's Barefoot Doctors

03/03/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, China's Barefoot Doctors

The revolutionary Chinese healthcare scheme and the ground-breaking US TV show M*A*S*H.

The revolutionary Chinese healthcare scheme, the ground-breaking US TV show M*A*S*H plus life and death on the Eastern Front in the First World War.

How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare; plus M*A*S*H, the ground-breaking American TV show that taught a generation about war; the assassination of the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme; the German and Russian soldiers who fought on the Eastern Front in the First World War; and the Angel of the North, a huge steel sculpture that has become an icon for the north-east of England.

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