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China's Olympic Promise
As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed to report freely.
As the Beijing Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether the Communist Party has kept its promise to allow foreign journalists to report freely in the run-up to the Olympics.
Sweeney has no problems meeting the beneficiaries of China's economic boom, but what will happen when he ventures into darker territory and seeks out those campaigning for democracy and human rights? He crosses through China, following the Olympic torch on what the authorities claim is 'the journey of harmony'.
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Sun 10 Aug 200820:30
BBC News UK