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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

Hello, where were you 25 years ago?

Tiananman Square was in the headlines, the first free elections in the communist world, the funeral

of Ayatollah Khomani.

And today, well no shortage of news events now either, a new regime led by a former military man in Egypt mounting discontent over the European

Union, Russia flexing its muscles beyond its border.

But which of these, if any, will continue to resonate a quarter of a century on?

Life in China has changed dramatically in the years since June 1989.

I was in Beijing back then as tanks prowled and soldiers fired on unarmed students and cleared

the democracy protests which had been building up in Tiananmen Square.

The country has become a global economic power. Hundreds of millions have left the fields and joined the urban middle classes,

but politics has atrophied and all challenges to the one-party state are taboo. So do any vestiges remain of that

youthful political idealism that brought crowds of protesters out onto the streets.

Carrie Gracie has been finding out.

My hunt for China's young idealists, the inheritance of the Tiananmen spirit,

started with a three hour drive through snarl traffic.

Ironically, the route took me first across the north end of Tiananmen Square,

under the gaze of Chairman Mao's portrait on the gate of heavenly peace,

then west along the avenue of Eternal Tranquility, the very same route

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