Half a rotten apple: growing up in 70s China

Writer Xiaolu Guo grew up in 1970s China, in a tiny village by the East China Sea. She'd been left there to live with her grandparents, and didn't know where her parents were. When they returned to collect her age seven, it began a lifetime of change - and a reckoning with China's history, from the feudal era to the Cultural Revolution. Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Laura Thomas Picture: Xiaolu Guo Credit: Xiaolu Guo