From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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the Education Minister's Watch
Thu 5 Jun 2014
Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia -why it's...
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The News in 2039
Sat 31 May 2014
Global despatches: will the African elephant be extinct in two decades? And which of...
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Thurs May 29 2014: Spinning Myths
Thu 29 May 2014
Insight, colour, analysis and description. In this edition the stories come from Rio...
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Less Freedom, More Stability
Sat 24 May 2014
Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been someone lying awake in Egypt...
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Walk Warily in Waziristan
Thu 22 May 2014
Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in is...
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The Tourists Have Gone
Sat 17 May 2014
Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: empty hotels and a deserted...
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Beauty and horror in South Sudan
Sat 10 May 2014
Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the...
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Heroes of Baghdad
Sat 3 May 2014
Global viewpoints. In this edition: Kevin Connolly visits the Baghdad book market and...
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Dilemmas in Damascus
Sat 26 Apr 2014
Despatches: Syrians, exhausted by a seemingly unending conflict, face agonising over...
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End of Era
Sat 19 Apr 2014
Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse to...
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A Happy Ending
Sat 12 Apr 2014
The stories behind the stories. In this edition: why Germany's ambivalence towards may...
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Underneath the Mango Tree
Sat 5 Apr 2014
Despatches from foreign correspondents. Today: Tim Whewell on what's caused the savage...
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Are the Russians coming?
Sat 29 Mar 2014
Correspondents' stories. In this edition, Humphrey Hawksley's in a part of Europe an...
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Hirsute History + Desert Verse
Sat 22 Mar 2014
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today, Jamie meets...
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Forensics and Scrummaging
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Correspondents' stories from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie.
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History, Aliens and Chicken Wings
Sat 15 Mar 2014
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week Mark Lowen is reminded of his...
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Troubles in Paradise
Thu 13 Mar 2014
Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Ukrainian is...
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Courthouses and Codpieces
Sat 8 Mar 2014
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. This week, with to...
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spaceships in the desert
Thu 6 Mar 2014
Stories from correspondents around the world, introduced by Kate Adie.
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Revolutions are Unpredictable
Sat 1 Mar 2014
'When change happens, it can happen very, very fast,' Steve Rosenberg in Ukraine.
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Here for Eternity?
Thu 27 Feb 2014
Correspondents with tales to tell. In this edition: Gabriel Gatehouse watching the in...
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The Hyenas Come to Town
Sat 22 Feb 2014
London may be infested by urban foxes and Delhi beseiged by urban monkeys but Addis as...
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Saddam Hussein Lives!
Thu 20 Feb 2014
Stories from foreign correspondents. In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi and...
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Marauding Baboons
Sat 15 Feb 2014
'No wonder everyone is looting now. The elites here have been doing it for years,' our...
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Come to Sunny Gaza!
Thu 13 Feb 2014
Why is Bosnia seeing its most serious unrest since the country was at war in the How a...
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The Robots Come Out at Night
Sat 8 Feb 2014
Robots are doing the cleaning up in an old people's home in Denmark. Are they popular?...
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Tiny Boats at Sea
Thu 6 Feb 2014
Spain crawls painfully out of recession but Pascale Harter, in Barcelona, says so much...
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A Doomed Romance
Thu 30 Jan 2014
A love affair going nowhere in Damascus -- it's what happens when a rebel footsoldier...
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Guns and Showers
Sat 25 Jan 2014
Reporters' despatches from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today, Will on a...
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Battlegrounds
Thu 23 Jan 2014
As athletes turn up to the winter Olympic games, what might they find? The Thai is of...
