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The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.
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Mark Clifford: Mark Clifford discusses the ongoing detention of British citizen and entrepreneur Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong. While China recently released a Protestant pastor, Xi Jinping reportedly remains determined that Lai, a fervent Catholic and advocat
August 13, 2026
John Batchelor (0:16)
I'm John Batchelor, Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang joins me to comment along with our friend Mark Clifford, the author of the very helpful troublemaker, The Story of Jimmy Lai, and his very successful career as an actor. I'm John Batchelor, Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang and his very successful career until the…
A British bishop has written to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, asking for him to do everything possible to secure the release of Jimmy Lai, a British citizen and a Roman Catholic, who has been imprisoned in Hong Kong for six years. Bishop James Currie, lead bishop for freedom of religion or belief at the…
Mark Clifford (1:26)
Good day to you, John, and I think that's a great place to start. It's very heartwarming to those of us who've been working for Jimmy's freedom for these past, as you say, almost six years, to get a new source of support. And it's Jimmy converted to Catholicism back in 1997 He's a fervent believer, and it's prayer…
John Batchelor (1:57)
Clifford, you have a question.
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