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The Politics of Natural Disasters

Jonathan Freedland and guests compare the calamitous floods in Valencia this Autumn with events in China in 1931.

Following the recent floods in Valencia, Jonathan Freedland looks at the politics of natural disasters, with
CHRIS COURTNEY - Associate Professor in Modern Chinese History at Durham University and author of The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood
LEAH PATTEM 鈥� Madrid based freelance journalist specialising in politics, migration and community stories
The readers are Ian Dunnett and Samuel James

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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