5x15 Special: Jung Chang on Fly, Wild Swans

Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans, the story of ‘three daughters of China’: Jung, her mother and her grandmother and their lives during a century of revolution. The book defined a generation and has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. She wrote a ground-breaking trilogy of the history and personalities of modern China: Mao, Empress Dowager Cixi and Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Her latest book, Fly, Wild Swans, is the long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans.

Rosie Boycott is a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. For ten years she was chair of The London food Board, responsible to the Mayor of London for food policy in the City. She is a well known food activist with particular interest in food poverty, health, environment and agricultural sustainability. She is a trustee of the Food Foundation and Feeding Britain and chair of Veg Power. She was the co-founder of the feminist magazine Spare Rib and the editor in chief of three national newspapers: The Independent on Sunday, the Independent and the Daily Express.