From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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The Jihadi Vegetable Patch
Sat 30 Mar 2013
Correspondents' despatches from around the world. In this edition: Thomas Fessy Mali...
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A Kafkaesque Nightmare
Thu 28 Mar 2013
Insight. Analysis. Colour. In this edition, people in the German town of Montabaur try...
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Talking About Fish
Sat 23 Mar 2013
Insight, colour and analysis from reporters around the world. Mark Lowen's in Cyprus...
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The Black Cowboy
Thu 21 Mar 2013
How did Herb Jeffries become a black cowboy film star when he wasn't even black? to in...
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Referendum Day
Sat 16 Mar 2013
Millions of Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution - Andrew Harding, in Harare, quotes...
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Decision Time for the Aborigines
Thu 14 Mar 2013
What price can you put on memory? Neil Trevithick is with the Aborigines whose in for...
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Battle Stations at the Vatican!
Sat 9 Mar 2013
Allan Little says there are deep disagreements among the cardinals as they prepare to...
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The Boy Who Knocked Stalin Down
Thu 7 Mar 2013
Correspondents' stories. Today: Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow as Russians debate the of...
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Cold in Calcutta
Thu 28 Feb 2013
Reporters worldwide: Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta as its people struggle to cope with...
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The Lap of Luxury
Sat 23 Feb 2013
When Madeleine Morris returned to her native Australia after twelve years in the UK a...
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Desperate for Tourists
Thu 21 Feb 2013
Despatches from around the world: Jonathan Head on a little-reported but long-running...
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Wild Horse Chase
Sat 16 Feb 2013
Reporters' despatches from far and wide: a vegetarian of 37 years' standing, Nick is a...
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Was It Worth It?
Thu 14 Feb 2013
Reporters worldwide - today: Ruth Sherlock on how the Free Syrian Army's losing as to...
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Low-Speed Rail
Sat 9 Feb 2013
Stories from around the world. Today: Will Grant in Mexico on the night horror on a on...
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Digging Up The Beer
Thu 7 Feb 2013
Analysis, colour, wit and observation from journalists worldwide. Today: Pascale the...
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Teatime in Germany
Sat 2 Feb 2013
Reporters worldwide tell their stories. Steve Evans in Berlin on how, perhaps given a...
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Settling Scores
Sat 2 Feb 2013
Tim Whewell, just back from Mali, talks of retribution. Every conflict throws up and...
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'Dream Big Kid!'
Thu 31 Jan 2013
Correspondents take a closer look at events in their part of the world.
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The Art of Seduction
Sat 26 Jan 2013
Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says keep that election bunting close at hand - Israelis...
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Return of the Bunga Bunga King
Thu 24 Jan 2013
Andrew Harding travels to the centre of Mali to find out how the fight against the is...
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New Enemies, New Friends
Sat 19 Jan 2013
Correspondents around the world telling their stories: Lyse Doucet has been meeting of...
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Return of the Gendarme of Africa
Thu 17 Jan 2013
Correspondents' news and views from around the globe: Hugh Schofield is in Paris as on...
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Title: Stateless in Kuwait
Sat 12 Jan 2013
Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from across the globe. Matthew Teller meets a...
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The secrets of eternal youth
Sat 5 Jan 2013
Andrew North reflects on whether the recent rape and murder of a woman in Delhi might...
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Highlights of 2012
Sat 29 Dec 2012
As the year draws to an end, Kate Adie presents a feast of highlights from despatches...
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A Parisian merry-go-round
Sat 22 Dec 2012
Kate Adie presents despatches from reporters across the globe. Lucy Ash travels to she...
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Dementia Village
Sat 15 Dec 2012
Reporters worldwide provide context to the week's news. Today: South Africa's ANC at a...
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A Nightmarish Tale
Sat 8 Dec 2012
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen examines claims that a conclusion to the in...
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Cairo at the Crossroads
Sat 1 Dec 2012
Jon Leyne in Cairo reflects on the debate about Egypt's future. Will it be or Secular...
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The Worst Possible News
Sat 24 Nov 2012
Despatches from reporters across the globe. Jon Donnison was in Gaza as the city came...
