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Hello, in today's programme we travel to the fictitious town of Heathwick,

where the action takes place over just one minute, and a split second will determine the fate of its residents.

And the irrepressible Susie Faye joins me to explore this year's Waterstones 11,

and update us on the debut titles that were last year lauded on the same list.

But first to China, which over the past decade, has emerged as a global superpower

and is estimated that it will overtake the USA's GDP

within the next 15 years. Yet we know little about the daily lives and contemporary culture

of this vast country of contrasts, where capitalist interests thrive within a communist regime

and millions are still tilling the land in abject poverty, while billionaires multiply in the

sprawling metropolises and human rights remain a controversial issue. In October, the Nobel Prize

for Literature was awarded to Mo Yan, the pen name of the Chinese novelist Guan Mai Yeh. Mo Yan translates

as don't speak, a warning given to him by his parents during the Cultural Revolution.

Despite dropping out of school, age 10,

he's become one of the country's most famous novelists

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