From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide

A personal take on homophobia in Russia

Paul Henley on the trials of being a gay correspondent reporting on anti-homosexual views.
Weekend Edition 9 March 2013: The Hard Numbers

Personal stories from Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Georgia and Western Australia.
Georgia and Austria: Dealing with dictators

60 years on Stalin is commemorated by some; but few remember Hitler in his birthplace.
Australia’s mining boom and Aboriginal lands

Neil Trevithick in Western Australia, where land is rich in memories as well as minerals.
Bulgaria, Iraq and Britain

Nick Thorpe on the protests rocking Sofia and Kevin Connolly on what's in Iraq's future.
Mexico and Portugal

Meeting "La Maestra" doesn't go to plan; plus the young Portuguese leaving home in droves
Guatemala and Canada

How Mexico's drug wars are spreading south; why Canadians have concerns about free trade.
Weekend Edition

Pascale Harter presents dispatches from Australia, Kenya, India, Thailand and France
Kenya special: coastal grudges and youth superheroes

The roots of today's divides in Kenya; Natasha Breed on a way to avert clashes
India special: College corruption and cold in Calcutta

Personal stories, insight and wit from Craig Jeffrey in Meerut and the BBC's Rahul Tandon.
Syria and Greece

The human and urban wreckage of civil war around Aleppo; the migrants keen to leave Patras
A little-known insurgency in Thailand, plus the price of limes in a rich Australia

An unheralded rebellion in Thailand, plus unintended consequences of wealth in Australia.
Uganda’s rising prices and anger at immigration in Singapore

Dispatches on rising inflation in Uganda and anger over newcomers in Singapore.
Planes, trains and horse-drawn carts

The pick of recent personal stories and dispatches from correspondents around the world.
Nepotism in Italy and France’s rugby shrine

Stories on nepotism in Italian universities and a church in France devoted to rugby.
Preventing a deadly disease and a vegetarian visits a slaughterhouse

Efforts to prevent sickle-cell disease and a visit to a Romanian slaughterhouse.
Dominic Brunt, Graham Gouldman and the Computer Clinic

Bernie chats to Dominic Brunt about his new film, Before Dawn.
The baton wavers of Japan and a return to Kenya

Stories on the strange jobs that prop up Japan’s economy and a reporter returns to Kenya.
America - fighting in the Philippines and welcoming immigrants at home

Joining US forces in the Philippines plus the story of a poignant reunion in New York
Stories of railways in Switzerland and Nigeria

From Swiss trains that run like clockwork, to Nigerian trains on a more leisurely pace
The life and death of a Syrian rebel, a trip through Bangladesh, and more

Stories on a rebel in Syria, a trip through Bangladesh’s richest region, and more.
Bread in Aleppo and tunnelling through the mountains in Italy

Winning over the people with food in Syria, while Italian protesters object to a tunnel.
Tunis losing the Paris feel while women swap lipsticks for knives in India

Is the shine coming off Tunisia's revolution? Plus the party arming women in India.
Murder in Corsica and home-made rockets in Syria

Crime isn't putting off the tourists in Corsica; while the death toll rises in Syria.
A Romanian palace and a fear of flying

The building with the biggest carpet in Europe; and a reporter's crippling fear of flying
A French bistro and the British pub

How microbreweries run by women is a new trend breathing life into Britain's pubs
Digging up beer in Mali; and staging Shakespeare in Hungary

Stories about Mali, Hungary, Lebanon and more.
Covering Mali, and an Afghan governor takes aim

Stories on an Afghan governor who’s a crack shot, and journalists descend on Timbuktu.
Guns in America and the battle to save Kenyan rhinos

Why Americans are so divided over guns and the fight to save rare rhinos in Kenya
Dark clouds in Mali and wandering through Bangladesh

Stories about divisions in Mali and a trip through one of Bangladesh’s richest regions.