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Radio 4,01 May 2012,20 mins

News of blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng

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We have an update on blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, whom Peter first met and interviewed in 2004. BBC Correspondent Martin Patience and TV producer and friend of Chen, Stephen Hallett, give their perspectives on Guangcheng's current situation having recently escaped from house arrest in his home in Southern China. Lee Kumutat meets visually impaired students from main stream schools who come together at New College Worcester for a GCSE revision course which gives them the opportunity to meet other blind students, some for the first time, in a special school environment.

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