Jung Chang, author of the bestselling Wild Swans, talks with BBC Radio 4’s Today show about media censorship and the lack of freedom of the press in her native China, despite the country’s economic growth and opening of its society. Chang’s biography of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, is still banned in China, but Chang is best known around the world for Wild Swans, a story about Chang, her mother, and her grandmother detailing their lives in 20th-century China.

Check out Chang’s BBC interview here (Real Player required).