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ANNA MAY WONG MUST DIE!
Anna Chen previews her personal journey through the life and crimes of the Hollywood screen legend at The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives in Cornwall, as part of the St Ives Literary Festival on Friday 8th May at 7pm. It's a multimedia show with music, film and poetry. You can watch an extract of the show as a work in progress here.

ANNA MAY WONG: CELESTIAL STAR OF PICCADILLY
Anna Chen writes and presents a half-hour profile of Hollywood's first Chinese movie star for BBC Radio 4. Broadcast 11:30, Tuesday 13th January 2009. Chosen as Pick of the Week by BBC R4, Guardian Guide, The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday.

SHORT STORY: Anna serialises her short story, Jeb 'n George Go Hunting. A nasty little gothic tale of country folk. Some might think this is about what the neo-cons are doing to the rest of us... I couldn't possibly comment.

BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Travel Stories: Upturned Roots series
RED GUARD, YELLOW SUBMARINE
Broadcast 10.45am, Thursday 10th November 2005. Repeated at 7.45pm

So you've been brought up as a Red Guard ... in Hackney. You make your first ever visit to the motherland during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. How will clashing ideologies compete in the fragile battleground that is you? How high a price would you pay in order to belong?

Written and narrated by Anna Chen
With Kwong Loke and Carolyne Pickles
Produced and directed by Pam Fraser-Solomon
Series produced by Shabina Aslam

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COOLIE
A story of race and class
A novel in progress about some of the thousands of Chinese workers who built the transcontinental Central Pacific railroad in the 1860s through hostile terrain, and the strike that won them pride and solidarity.
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SPARKS RADIO DRAMA WRITING GROUP 2004
Every year BBC radio drama selects a dozen writers for their development course. This year Anna became one of those writers and co-wrote Smoked a short play for the radio with Lance Woodman. Recorded February 2004 at Bush House.

YOKO ONO: A Life In Flux, BBC Radio 3
Anna presented and co-wrote this profile of Yoko Ono the artist, and the Fluxus group of which she was a key member, in 1999 for BBC Radio 3.
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IIN PERSPECTIVE: SERGEI EISENSTEIN
An essay on film arts and review of the special centenary edition of The Eisenstein Collection (Tartan Video, Faber & Faber). Illustrated with film stills, plus useful links
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GEORGE ORWELL: a literary revolutionary?
An essay and review of John Newsinger's book, Orwell's Politics
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