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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.

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Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
28 minutes
Episodes
1174
Years Active
2010 - 2025
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Real or Fake?

Real or Fake?

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Katerina Vittozzi is in northeastern Nigeria, where assassinations, bombings and kidnapping are now combined with starvation. But amid the bleakness she …

00:27:54  |   Sat 10 Dec 2016
Changing Fortunes

Changing Fortunes

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. The move to bigger offices makes Mark Lowen ponder the huge changes in Turkey. In Iraq the army, Kurdish forces and various militia groups have common ca…

00:28:12  |   Sat 26 Nov 2016
Neither Love Nor Money

Neither Love Nor Money

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Dan Isaacs is on Aleppo's frontline with the last shopkeeper of the Old City; Soutik Biswas is thwarted in his search for cash in India; Tulip Mazumdar h…

00:28:16  |   Sat 19 Nov 2016
A Crack in Everything

A Crack in Everything

Kate Adie lets the light in with stories of post-trump shivers in Ireland, with Vincent Woods; Katy Watson describes dejection and keen memories in Mexico; democracy of sorts and state-building in so…

00:28:17  |   Sat 12 Nov 2016
Constitutionally Capable

Constitutionally Capable

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from China, Venezuela, Italy, Cote d'Ivoire and Kosovo. As the news of Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election sinks in around the world, f…

00:28:18  |   Thu 10 Nov 2016
Reading the Signs

Reading the Signs

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Justin Rowlatt, in the smog of Delhi, hears how Theresa May's hopes of brokering a free-trade deal with India could be much harder than the govern…

00:27:48  |   Sat 05 Nov 2016
Too Hot To Think

Too Hot To Think

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: On a flight to Las Vegas, Rajini Vaidynathan strikes up conversation with what turn out to be mainly Trump supporters and concludes that, wherever…

00:28:09  |   Thu 03 Nov 2016
Awkward Questions

Awkward Questions

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Karen Allen is caught up in the anger of the student protests in South Africa. After the latest terror attack in Pakistan, Shahzeb Jillani wonders…

00:27:41  |   Sat 29 Oct 2016
Linguistic confusion and mass killers

Linguistic confusion and mass killers

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Damien McGuinness is in Berlin where the politicians are frustrated that British politicians don't seem to understand that no means no. Jake Wallis Simon…

00:28:10  |   Thu 27 Oct 2016
Memento Mori

Memento Mori

In a week of remembrance and recollection, Jannat Jalil explains how the French authorities - who are preparing to remember those killed in last November’s Paris attacks - find other deaths on the ca…

00:28:12  |   Sat 22 Oct 2016
A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

Recollections of working in Warsaw thirty years ago prompt Kevin Connolly to consider how life there then informs Poles’ support now for freedom of movement within the European Union. Bethany Bell vi…

00:28:27  |   Thu 20 Oct 2016
Treading Carefully

Treading Carefully

We travel to Hawai'i, The Gambia, France and India-administered Kashmir this week. The programme begins in Australia where the plans of the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to hold a national plebis…

00:27:53  |   Sat 15 Oct 2016
Battle Lines

Battle Lines

Today, twenty years after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, Kate Clark, who was the only Western reporter in the country during their final years in power, reflects on what has c…

00:27:55  |   Thu 13 Oct 2016
Bitter Harvests

Bitter Harvests

Kate Adie introduces tales of fear, bravery and love from around the world. Justin Rowlatt is in Bangladesh, asking whether security is as important to the country’s leadership as going after its pol…

00:27:54  |   Sat 08 Oct 2016
Peeling Back the Layers

Peeling Back the Layers

Stories of surface image - and underlying reality - from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In Moscow, the alleged killers of liberal politician Boris Nemtsov are on trial, but questions rema…

00:27:58  |   Thu 06 Oct 2016
The Last of the Founding Fathers

The Last of the Founding Fathers

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from around the globe. This week, Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem recollects his last meeting with Shimon Peres, and assesses the late president’s legacy; John Sweeney, t…

00:27:54  |   Sat 01 Oct 2016
The Wilder Shores

The Wilder Shores

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. In this edition: Tim Ecott reports from the Seychelles in the week the president shocked the affluent island nation b…

00:27:37  |   Thu 29 Sep 2016
Barriers and Borders

Barriers and Borders

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week, Lyse Doucet reports from her native Canada on the country’s sponsorship scheme for refugees; Joe Miller co…

00:28:43  |   Sat 24 Sep 2016
Higher Powers

Higher Powers

Kate Adie presents the first in a new series of eight programmes. In this edition, John Murphy reports from Najaf on the mounting death toll among Iraqis from the conflict with so-called Islamic Stat…

00:28:01  |   Thu 22 Sep 2016
It's Not What It Was

It's Not What It Was

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: Kevin Connolly reports from Bratislava as EU leaders have a perfectly normal get-together - except someone…

00:27:44  |   Sat 17 Sep 2016
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