Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
The History Hour · BBC World Service
May 7, 202249m 57s
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Show Notes
Max Pearson gets a first-hand account of how the minority Uyghur community in China staged some of the first protests against the all-powerful Communist Party in the 1980s. Plus, the young lawyer who won the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights case in the US, the chemistry of cannabis and the personal stories of two veterans of the 1982 Falklands War.
PHOTO: A Uyghur yurt on the Xinjiang steppe (Getty Images)