The Interview - BBC, 12 March 2005

One of the Tiananmen generation, Xiao Qiang gave up his career as a young physicist to devote himself to activism and push for political change from exile in the United States.

He's now been working for 16 years to bring democracy and human rights to China. As China's economy grows stronger, the Communist Party seems ever more resistent to the urgings of exiled dissidents and western governments on the question of political reform. But Xiao Qiang believes there now exists an unprecedented vehicle for change - the internet.

In this edition of The Interview to mark a special week of programmes on China, Xiao Qiang talks to Carrie Gracie about why he thinks the internet is pointing the way forward and why this is such a crucial moment for China.

1984 - by George Orwell, read by Colin Redgrave BBC Radio2 2005 production

BBC Radio has broadcast a reading of George Orwell's classic, 1984 throughout the months of April and May this year. The 8-part series was complete by week of June4th.

For an online edition of 1984, see: http://www.msxnet.org/orwell/1984