Friday Late is a weekly interview program from the people who bring you PM. Daily current affairs doesn't always have time to let guests stretch out and expand on their knowledge - Friday Late will fill that gap. Each week, Mark Colvin will be talking to three or four newsmakers, analysts and thinkers about the events that shape our time.
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Italian politics have been in turmoil since the interim Prime Minister announced a week ago that he was resigning. His announcement was a reaction to Silvio Berlusconi's decision to return to politics. Elections scheduled for March are now expected in February. Bill Emmott was editor of the economist for 13 years till 2006. Since then he's written a book called 'Good Italy, Bad Italy' and most recently made a film about Italy called 'Girlfriend in a Coma'. I'll let him explain the title. I started by asking Bill Emmott to reflect on Prime Minister Mario Monti's year at the head of a so-called 'technocratic' government.
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It's pretty well known that censorship is a powerful tool in the hands of the ruling Chinese Communist Party - we hear less about how it actually works. Eveline Chao is a freelance journalist, author and editor now based in New York, who's been writing about the five years she spent in China working at an English language business magazine. I started by asking Eveline Chao what censorship she experienced working for a business publication in China.
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Friday Late is a weekly interview program from the people who bring you PM. Daily current affairs doesn't always have time to let guests stretch out and expand on their knowledge - Friday Late will fill that gap. Each week, Mark Colvin will be talking to three or four newsmakers, analysts and thinkers about the events that shape our time. On the program tonight, William Shawcross is the son of the top British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime trials. He discusses what he learnt from his father about international justice and how he regards the Guantanamo Bay Al-Qaeda trials. Also Eveline Chao gives us some insight into censorship in China. She reveals how it works openly at newspapers and magazines, and more surreptitiously on the internet. And Good Italy, Bad Italy - Bill Emmott reflects on Prime Minister Mario Monti's year at the head of a so-called 'technocratic' government.
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Our last interview for the year is with William Shawcross, here this week as a guest of the Sydney Institute, mainly to talk about his book Justice And The Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Its starting point is the author's own father Hartley Shawcross.
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