29 Aug 2013

The Vault - Rewi Alley

From Afternoons, 3:17 pm on 29 August 2013

From the Radio NZ Vault, a reminder of how fast change can be. In the lifetime of Rewi Alley, China went from agrarian poverty through bloody revolution to become a major power - a communist one which the West considered the greatest threat to democracy. Deborah Nation draws from the archives to take us back to the experience of one man who played a pivotal role in both communism and democracy.