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Bohemian émigrés

In the 1930s, Belsize Park in north-west

London was home to a community of Chinese

artists, writers and intellectuals. At the time,

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chart the story of a

BBC Radio 3 / January

The cover of Chiang Yee’s

1944 book The Silent

Traveller in Oxford. Yee

is one of the Chinese

intellectuals explored in

Sunday Feature: China, NW3

The red card given to

David Beckham during

the 1998 World Cup is

one of the moments from

the BBC archives that

Greg Jenner discusses

in his new series

WATCH

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Operation Mincemeat

In cinemas from Friday 7 January

Matthew Macfadyen, Colin Firth and

Johnny Flynn star in Operation Mincemeat,

which recreates one of the most remarkable

deception operations of the Second World War

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BBC Radio 4 / From Monday 3 January

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