麻豆约拍

By Geling Yan, read by Neil Dudgeon.

Dan is at breaking point. The moral demands everyone is making of his non-existent journalistic skills are more than he can bear. But a new career beckons, one he seems very suited for; requiring no moral judgement and no skill whatever - film extra.

This first novel in English by a Chinese journalist is an extraordinary evocation of modern Chinese life, the apparently booming economy, the huge gap between rich and poor, and the omniprescence and corruption of the party.

Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis.