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Wish Lanterns 

David Seddon

Alec Ash

Jill Waters

Wish Lanterns by Alec Ash: 5. Progress

Wish Lanterns

5. Progress

Wish Lanterns by Alec Ash

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Wish Lanterns by Alec Ash, 5. Progress

Exploring the lives of young Chinese, the 'one-child' offspring of the 1980s.

Exploring the lives of young Chinese and graduates pressure to succeed under the threat of unemployment. Read by David Sneddon.

Rejoin the cohort in 2014 as they approach or turn 30 years old. 

Stable employment continues to preoccupy them, as does the question of when and how to start a family. 

Concluding the stories of young Chinese lives, particularly those born under the one-child policy of the 1980s, as they seek to negotiate the expectations of those around them and their own inner desires for self-fulfilment.

Written by Alec Ash.

Read by David Seddon.

Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters.

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016.

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