TVB should show the controversial BBC documentary on Mao Zedong because people in Hong Kong want to watch it, Hong Kong dissident Lau Shan-ching said yesterday.
He said a survey he had commissioned showed almost 56 per cent of the respondents opposed the fact that TVB, which had bought the programme, had not said when or if it would show it.
The results showed 65 per cent of respondents believed TVB had not yet decided when to air the BBC's Chairman Mao, The Last Emperor because of opposition from the Chinese Government.
More than 70 per cent of the respondents did not agree that the Hong Kong public was not interested in the documentary.
TVB has said it does not plan to show the film because the public is not interested.
The polling company interviewed 548 respondents above the age of 15 by telephone on February 22.
