25,000 Li: The Sound of the Long March

If the Long March has a moment where everything changes, it happens here—in a cold meeting room in a small Guizhou town, over three days in January 1935. This is the story of a wrong turning that eventually found its right direction.

Last time, we said farewell. Today, we run. The Red Army has left the safety of the river behind, and the enemy is closing in from every side. This is the story of the first great test—and the bloodiest battle of the entire march.

Welcome to 25,000 Li: The Sound of the Long March. We begin where the march itself began: on the banks of the Yudu River, in October 1934, where eighty thousand people said goodbye, not knowing if they would ever return.

The podcast series takes us to one of history's most extraordinary journeys through the ten songs of The Long March Cantata. Beginning with the farewell on the Yudu River in 1934, we follow eighty thousand people across eighteen mountains, twenty-four rivers, and three hundred and eighty battles – twelve thousand five hundred kilometers that tested the limits of human resilience. This is where music meets memory: ten melodies that carry the weight of ninety years, and stories that still resonate with anyone who has ever had to keep walking.