From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide
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Race and house-hunting in Singapore, plus old fashioned mail boats in the Bahamas
Stories on race and housing in booming Singapore – and the mail boats of the Bahamas.
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Winds of change in Algeria and the ‘browning’ of America
Has the Arab Spring affected Algeria? Plus a dispatch on Latinos in America.
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Choices in Damascus and a Piano in Toulouse
Difficult choices in Syria and the success of a piano in Toulouse train station
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Brazil and France
Barbed satire about slum 'pacification' in Rio; Euro-scepticism on the rise in Marseille
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Short Stories and Tall Tales
Tales about writers, storytellers and poets - and stories that are too good to be true
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Liberia and Italy: the Days of the Dead
Sprucing up family vaults in Monrovia; the great names of Rome's Non-Catholic cemetery
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Syria and Siberia
Rebel fighters grow weary around Latakia; classical concert-goers thrill in Berdsk
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Ukraine and France
Encounters with hardline "pro-Russians" in Slaviansk and the con artists of Montmartre
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Reporting on India and China
The riddles of modern China, and invented traditions in India
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South Africa: end of the mine?
Are we in the last days of South Africa's mining industry?
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A Joyful Noise
Car horns, national anthems and calypso - a cacophony of stories from BBC correspondents
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Brazil and Canada
Fashion meets indigenous arts in the Amazon rainforest; separatism wanes in Quebec
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Germany, Russia, Syria and the USA
Why many Germans are so ambivalent about Russia, and how Syrian refugees adjust to NYC
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Gaza's New Challenges and Hungary's Prime Minister
Hamas is now at odds with Egypt's government; and what does Viktor Orban want?
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Migrants in Melilla, misgivings in Malaysia
Meeting people who jump the fence into the EU; the MH370 affair and Malay-China relations
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India and Morocco
Why Kolkata wants to be more like London, and the dying art of storytelling in Marrakech.
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Weekend Edition: Misfits
Global stories of those who stand out from the crowd - for good reasons and bad
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India Special
India: the contrast between rich and poor in Gujarat, and between old and new in Assam
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Central African Republic and Qatar
The Central African Republic's farmers v cowboys conflict, and Qatar's first bus service.
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The Voynich Manuscript
The mystery of the never-deciphered Voynich Manuscript - who could have written it?
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Mexico's Migrants and Uruguay's 'First Couple'
The town that depends on people crossing into the US; growing up gay in a dictatorship
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What’s Left Behind?
Stories about the people, places and things left behind, from BBC correspondents.
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Afghanistan and Romania
Tension spikes in Kabul before the election; two men's private revolt against Ceausescu
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A hero in Rwanda; a nuclear dilemma in France
How one man saved hundreds from the 1994 genocide; why atomic waste's buried in Champagne
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Ukraine and Bangladesh
Fighting corruption in Kiev; army and local tribes at odds in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
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A special live edition from W1: Freedom's Paths
Gabriel Gatehouse, Jeremy Bowen, Audrey Brown and Shaimaa Khalil on freedom's path
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Trans-Dniester, and San Francisco’s Most Famous Bookshop
A story from Trans-Dniester, and a visit to the famous independent bookshop City Lights
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Touring Central Asia
From Afghanistan to Kazakhstan, we hear the latest stories and insights from the 'stans'
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Cyprus and Lebanon
Returning to post-bailout Cyprus and a temporary escape from Damascus
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Business and elections in Afghanistan, and Goa’s trashmobs
Business in Afghanistan and Goa’s trashmobs – dispatches from BBC correspondents