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China's creative dissidents

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In today’s show we're discussing China's creative dissidents. Chan Koonchung joins us to talk about his disturbing novel about the superpower's future as well as protestors getting naked in support of the artist Ai Wei Wei. Also on the programme, Justin Timberlake's new movie "In Time" where the rich survive and the poor die young, and singer Thomas Dutronc's second album goes platinum, but is it worth all the hype?

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