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Radio 4,09 Sep 2014,15 mins

Remembering Chairman Mao

Witness History

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The Chinese leader Mao Zedong died on September 9th 1976. American Sidney Rittenberg first met him in the 1940s and he spent half a century living in communist China. Hear his memories of one of the world's great revolutionaries.

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