Jonathan Spence on Confucius - a great thinker

This week on the BBC's Interview podcast you can learn about Chinese history from an expert, the man slated to give the 2008 BBC Reith Lectures which will also be broadcast on the BBC's World Service. "Professor Jonathan Spence is an acclaimed American scholar who specialises in Chinese history and his lecture series is designed to present a different perspective of a country which is very much in the international focus this year. He talks to Owen Bennett-Jones about his choice for his first lecture - Confucius - a great thinker whose ideas still resonate today and who is being rehabilitated by the Chinese government. And he tells us his favourite Confucian joke." - BBC.