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Red Memory by Tania Branigan

5: Echoes of the Cultural Revolution

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Mao impersonators, kitsch Cultural Revolution restaurants and student 'struggle sessions', as China struggles to make sense of its past, and the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. Show more

Red Memory by Tania Branigan

2: ‘They really were afraid of Stravinsky.’

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Composer Wang Xilin recounts his dramatic fall from grace after Mao's crackdown on Western music, in Tania Branigan's haunting exploration of China's bloody Cultural Revolution. Show more