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It is, as they say

Eddie Mair | 16:45 UK time, Tuesday, 13 May 2008

a packed programme, to the extent that a great guest we spoke to earlier has had to be dropped. The Blog, though, gives you a chance to hear what would have gone unheard.

I was planning to say:

"China's response to this latest natural disaster is in sharp contrast to that which followed a huge earthquake in 1976. Then, the authorities downplayed what happened.

The author Diane Wei Liang lived through that earthquake. Her new book, , is partly set in the region worst affected by the latest quake."

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