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From Our Own Correspondent

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.

News News Commentary
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
28 minutes
Episodes
1174
Years Active
2010 - 2025
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A Journalist's Best Friend

A Journalist's Best Friend

Lost confidence, fake seeds, masked assignations, steaming glory and animal insights. Humphrey Hawksley is in a fishing village in the Philippines, hard hit by China's expanding maritime claims. Adam…

00:28:08  |   Sat 04 Mar 2017
Too Many Ways to Talk

Too Many Ways to Talk

How do you keep your audience listening if the story's so hard to hear? That's what Alastair Leithead grapples with in South Sudan's civil war. Warsaw was all but destroyed in the Second World War, a…

00:27:49  |   Thu 02 Mar 2017
Hidden Dangers

Hidden Dangers

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Colin Freeman sees the devastating consequences of IS mines and booby traps, left behind for civilians anxious to return to their homes. Elisabeth Kendal…

00:28:18  |   Sat 25 Feb 2017
Digging In

Digging In

Kate Adie introduces correspondents's stories. Vincent Woods on the whistleblowing scandal that has threatened the Taoiseach and what it says about modern Ireland. Cathy Otten is with the gravedigger…

00:28:16  |   Thu 23 Feb 2017
The All-Seeing Eye

The All-Seeing Eye

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. With President Putin enjoying sky-high approval ratings, Sarah Rainsford travels to the hear the verdict in the trial of a man hoping to replace Mr. Puti…

00:28:08  |   Sat 18 Feb 2017
From the Vatican to Vienna

From the Vatican to Vienna

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Christopher Lamb on the opposition to Pope Francis within the Vatican - visible for all to see in the streets. Humphrey Hawksley, on the Taiwanese island…

00:28:15  |   Thu 16 Feb 2017
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Andrew Harding, in South Africa, says the word "sorry" hasn't had much air time in recent years, despite numerous incidents of corruption and poor…

00:28:13  |   Sat 11 Feb 2017
Radio Baa Baa

Radio Baa Baa

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Mike Thomson speaks to an extraordinary man in Idlib, north-west Syria, as he responds to demands from extremists by broadcasting animal noises on…

00:28:10  |   Thu 09 Feb 2017
It's Just Not Cricket

It's Just Not Cricket

Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Jon Sopel asks if we have got it all wrong about Donald Trump. He's not just a deal maker, he has ideologues standing right behind him. Will Grant,…

00:28:10  |   Sat 04 Feb 2017

"Beautiful, Beautiful Chaos"

Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Tim Hartley hears how politics are forgotten amid the colour and friendship of the African Cup of Nations in Gabon. Nick Sturdee has a fanta…

00:28:11  |   Thu 02 Feb 2017
Mission Accomplishment

Mission Accomplishment

Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories: Justin Rowlatt sees the high cost Afghanistan's soldiers are paying to fight off the Taleban and hears how important American troops are to the NAT…

00:28:13  |   Sat 28 Jan 2017
More Alternative Facts

More Alternative Facts

Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. In The Gambia, Alastair Leithead watched the old president and dictator leaving; and as he waits for the new one to arrive, he wonders if the presi…

00:27:54  |   Thu 26 Jan 2017
Drawing Out the Story

Drawing Out the Story

Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Robin Denselow is in one of the most sparsely populated countries on the planet, Namibia, where they are seeking divine intervention in a ti…

00:28:15  |   Sat 21 Jan 2017
This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil

Emily Buchanan introduces correspondents' stories. John Beck meets the policeman who used a special disguise to escape from ISIS killers in Iraq; Rebecca Henschke is outside court to hear why some th…

00:28:12  |   Thu 19 Jan 2017
Striving for Clarity

Striving for Clarity

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. John Sudworth is doing his best to tape up the windows of his Beijing flat as he tries to protect his family from the city's danger…

00:28:08  |   Sat 14 Jan 2017

"May it Pass"

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Mark Lowen takes the increasingly well-trodden path to the mosque for another funeral in Turkey; Vin Ray visits the secretive airbase at the centr…

00:28:15  |   Sat 07 Jan 2017
Cooking up 2016

Cooking up 2016

By any standard, 2016 has been a momentous year, right across the world: unexpected election results, disastrous wars, huge flows of migrants and refugees, major terrorist attacks, the death of memor…

00:28:07  |   Sat 31 Dec 2016
Hollywood Smiles and Sweet Memories

Hollywood Smiles and Sweet Memories

Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories: Mary Harper goes to the Syrian dentist bringing Hollywood smiles to Somaliland; Guy Hedgecoe travels to the highlands of Spanish Catalonia, a stronghold o…

00:28:14  |   Sat 24 Dec 2016
Rwandan Echoes

Rwandan Echoes

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Memories of Rwanda return to Alastair Leithead in northern Uganda as he watches refugees fleeing from South Sudan's civil war; Gideon Long tries not to l…

00:28:13  |   Sat 17 Dec 2016
Vigilantes, Strongmen and Mannequins

Vigilantes, Strongmen and Mannequins

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Jill McGivering investigates the cow protection squads in northern India, some of which have been accused of extreme violence against Muslims. Colin Free…

00:28:13  |   Sat 10 Dec 2016
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