Can't Get You Out of My Head

# True love will find you in the end

# You'll find out just who was your friend

# Don't be sad, I know you will

# But don't give up until

# True love finds you in the end

# This is a promise with a catch

# Only if you're looking will it find you

# Cos true love is searching too

# But how can it recognise you

# Unless you step out into the light, the light

# Don't be sad, I know you will

# But don't give up until

# True love finds you in the end. #

In 1979, a Frenchman called Bernard Kouchner,

who had founded Medecins Sans Frontieres,

chartered an old cargo ship, and he went to rescue

thousands of starving refugees trapped on a tiny island.

Refugees that no-one else seemed to care about.

They were fleeing from the new communist government

that had taken over Vietnam.

To many liberals in the West,

the communists had been heroes in their fight against America,

which meant that the refugees did not deserve to be helped.

To Kouchner, this was outrageous.

The point is people are dying in the China Sea.

I mean, the boat people are now facing piracy.

I mean, they are attacked by pirates

ten times in their trip, if they are still alive,

and nobody are taking care of them.

And that's our purpose.

It's not possible to shut up now.

Kouchner's action had a powerful effect in the West,

because it started to undermine the self-belief of a whole generation,

who saw themselves as radical and pure...

..that possibly being good was not as easy as it seemed.

It began when the singer Joan Baez came out in support of Kouchner.

In the 1960s,

she had been deeply involved in the Civil Rights protests...

The mothers gave me five children to fully register...

You can't go in, nobody but students and parents.

..and also one of the leaders of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

She was a symbol of the idealism at its heart.

I'd like to try, if I may. You can't get in.

But now she said that the refusal to help the refugees

showed how radicals had become not only uncaring, but corrupt.

They would allow thousands of people to die,

simply because they had the wrong ideology.

Baez went on French television

and she gave an interview that caused a sensation.

INTERVIEWER, IN FRENCH:

No, I never defended the government of Vietnam.

I spoke for the people inside of Vietnam.

I was against the violence

that this country perpetrated inside of Vietnam,

but...I was equally against an American boy

being shot out of a plane as I was the women and children

of Vietnam being bombed,

so it was never possible for my position to be clear,

particularly somewhere like France, where peace movement means left.

I'm not left.

Baez was immediately attacked by other anti-war activists,

led by Jane Fonda.

They accused Baez of being an unwitting agent

of American imperialism.

..and leftism in a way that I'm not. I think that's as simple as...

Despite the row, Kouchner carried on,

rescuing thousands of refugees lost at sea in tiny sinking boats.

Kouchner believed that what he was doing

might also be the start of a completely new kind of radicalism,

one that really would make the world a better place.

The reaction in the West, he said,

had shown that the old political ideologies of left and right

had now lost all credibility.

Kouchner had an alternative idea

that was going to go very deep in the imagination of the West.

It said that we are all one world,

linked together simply as individuals,

not divided by political ideas or by nations.

And we, the good people in the West, had a duty to intervene

to help the victims of all evil political ideas,

wherever they were across the world.

We don't care on leftist and rightist countries,

there is no leftist and rightist suffering,

and there is no possibility to split the world in good people

and bad people, good dead and bad dead.

Because we think that this is a new kind of policy.

For us, human being is one.

To let the people speak to each other before dying.

# With the nice girl in the park

# You were strolling full of joy

# And you told me that you'd never kissed a girl before

# Hold your hand out, you naughty boy

# Hold your hand out, you naughty boy

# Hold your hand out, you naughty boy

# Last night in the pale moonlight

# I saw ya, I saw ya

# With the nice girl in the park... #

Julia Grant had grown up in the north of England, near Blackpool.

But, in the 1970s, she had moved south

and became part of the growing gay scene, and a drag artist.

She knew inside herself that she was a woman -

that was her true self.

Which made her an outsider everywhere,

including in the gay world.

When I was living on the apparently gay scene and being a drag artist...

..nobody thought any...

..any bad if I sort of went out, did my show,

and, when I came off stage, sort of toned down my make-up

and put on a dress, because I was accepted as a drag artist,

whereas if I try to go to a gay pub dressed as a woman...

..most gay people resent the fact that a man wants to change his sex.

Transvestites and transsexuals are a minority

within the actual gay world.

To have a gender reassignment operation,

Julia was going to have to go through a series of interviews

with a state psychiatrist.

He would decide who she really was.

Julia was part of a new idea rising up in the 1980s -

it said that to change the world and to make it a better place,

you should fight to become

who you as an individual truly were.

That was real freedom.

But, to do it,

Julia was going to have to take on the medical establishment.

Do you have a letter from your doctor for me?

Right. Well, what is the problem?

Well, I feel, um, that I've been having a fight with myself

for a long time, and I've come to terms with the fact

that I believe I am a woman...

..trapped within sort of a man's body.

Well, what do you mean by being a woman?

Well, my whole.... All my thoughts and everything are feminine,

there's nothing masculine.

I tend to reject my masculine body.

You know it to be masculine?

I identify it as masculine

because society identify me as masculine.

Well, it's not a matter of society. It's a matter of anatomy.

You say you feel like a woman?

Yes, I believe everything I do is feminine.

I believe I'm a woman inside.

Well, Michelle, how does it feel to be a woman?

It just feels like being me. Can't describe it as anything else.

You see? She's right.

Nobody knows how anybody else feels inside.

Well, I feel I don't...

I believe I don't actually feel the way a normal man should feel.

It may be that you identify with certain stereotypes

of the female gender role -

that is the traditions, the behaviour, the ideas,

but that doesn't make you a woman.

You know, styles do change, even if you think they don't.

Shoulders are wider, and they're higher.

See, they all had to have pads put in.

And, insofar as we could,

we've just lengthened them a little bit because they're longer.

And the thing we've learned is never really press your hem.

You know, sometimes you see people ironing a dress,

and they press along the hem until it looks like a knife edge.

And then, if you want to let it down, you can't.

Just leave the hem gently rolled, and then you'll...

Never press along the edge, then you can let them down.

The China News Agency supplied

all the news for everyone in China,

but it also ran a privileged news service

for the Communist Party elite.

And the higher you were in the party,

the more truth you were allowed to know.

There were three levels of secret newspapers published every day,

and at the top there was what was called Big Reference.

Very few copies were printed,

because they were only for the top leadership,

and it was printed in extra large type

to make it easier for the old men who ran the country to read it.

And at the very top was now Deng Xiaoping.

He was in complete control in China.

He had defeated all his rivals,

and to show his strength, in 1979, he put his main enemy on trial,

Jiang Qing.

HE SPEAKS IN MANDARIN

She was accused, along with the other members of the Gang of Four,

of killing and persecuting thousands of people

in the Cultural Revolution,

but she refused to recognise the court.

She continually attacked the judges.

SHE SHOUTS

The judges, she said, were hypocrites.

They had all followed Mao's ideas.

They were just turning on her to save themselves.

Instead, she presented herself as the one thing

that she knew Deng Xiaoping feared most -

a defiant individual.

As she was hustled out of the court, she shouted,

"I am without heaven, and a law unto myself.

"It is right to rebel."

But Deng showed her no mercy.

Deng Xiaoping decided to experiment with democracy.

He allowed people to put up posters and sell magazines

in Tiananmen Square.

It was known as Democracy Wall...