From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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Kerouac's Back
Sat 18 Jan 2014
Story telling: Kerouac the runaway dog returns from his adventures in Mali and the our...
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A City of Intrigue
Sat 11 Jan 2014
A secret city, melted cheese, female freedom fighters, buried treasure, an emperor's...
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Somalis on Ice
Sat 4 Jan 2014
Foreign correspondents: James Copnall meets the men now controlling the opposing in to...
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Don't Call it a Drone!
New Year's Day 2014
Reporters worldwide. In this edition: Britain and France are to co-operate on a new -...
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Transglobal Express
Sat 28 Dec 2013
Over the past year, BBC correspondents have reported on upheaval in Egypt, war in a in...
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Good to See You Again!
Sat 21 Dec 2013
Good to see you again! Mark Doyle is reunited with his spectacles, which were lost on...
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Turmoil in Thailand
Sat 14 Dec 2013
Correspondents with stories from around the world: in this edition, Jonathan Head on a...
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Mandela: five correspondents' stories
Sat 7 Dec 2013
Nelson Mandela: five correspondents who'll never forget how their own stories came to...
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East or West?
Sat 30 Nov 2013
Correspondents with stories from the news. Today, Steve Rosenberg on how Ukraine's in...
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Heroes of Baghdad
Sat 23 Nov 2013
Reporters' despatches: already this year more than seven thousand people have been in...
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The Noise of the Typhoon
Sat 16 Nov 2013
The noise and devastation of Hurricane Haiyan: Andrew Harding on the first town in the...
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The Lost Orchards
Thu 14 Nov 2013
Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen on the talks, restarting in Geneva next week,...
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Fraying at the Edges
Sat 9 Nov 2013
Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished business in the Middle to...
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The Midnight Bus to Damascus
Thu 7 Nov 2013
Reporters worldwide: while refugees continue to stream out of Syria in their there are...
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Cities on Edge
Sat 2 Nov 2013
Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of...
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A Night Out in Greenland
Thu 31 Oct 2013
Correspondents' stories: once the cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia's now battling an...
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The Ruin of Rome
Sat 26 Oct 2013
The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of Rome - Joanna Robertson of a...
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Don't Mention the War!
Thu 24 Oct 2013
As one of the last heroes of the Vietnam War is laid to rest, Rajan Datar hears young...
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The Migrants Who Made it
Sat 19 Oct 2013
The Via Roma in the Italian island of Lampedusa -- Alan Johnston says that for the who...
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Songs of Love and Loss
Thu 17 Oct 2013
The traditional sad songs of Portugal have become sadder still as the government in --...
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Breaking the Rules
Sat 12 Oct 2013
Correspondents' stories: the Champs d'Elysees is an icon of Paris, a majestic piece of...
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Iceland's Book Boom
Thu 10 Oct 2013
Looking behind the news. In this programme: David Loyn examines the claim that NATO in...
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A Giant Snake Comes to Town
Sat 5 Oct 2013
Colour and analysis from around the world: Kevin Connolly says as much as a quarter of...
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Sibelius, Saunas and Salmiakki
Thu 3 Oct 2013
Correspondents with colour and analysis from around the world: Theopi Skarlatos in on...
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The President's Golden Scissors
Sat 28 Sep 2013
Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - so...
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The Love Hunters
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Global despatches. Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the a...
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The Dry Bones of a Thousand Empires
Sat 21 Sep 2013
Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen in Damascus reflects on the lessons a learns...
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Unanswered Questions
Sat 14 Sep 2013
Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world. Following the death...
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A Shattered Mosaic
Sat 7 Sep 2013
Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa...
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A Banquet of Unpalatable Choices
Sat 31 Aug 2013
Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in Washington on difficult decisions a...
