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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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Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: Yolande Knell reports on the boom in civil marriages on Cyprus - for couples from Lebanon and Israel; Rog…

00:27:43  |   Sat 10 Sep 2016
Follow the Leaders

Follow the Leaders

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: As the latest summit of the Group of 20 leading nations takes place in China this weekend, Carrie Gracie p…

00:27:55  |   Sat 03 Sep 2016
Drug Wars

Drug Wars

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: a special insight into the extraordinary number of recent deaths in the Philippines as Jonathan Head talks…

00:27:49  |   Sat 27 Aug 2016
What's in a Name?

What's in a Name?

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week:

Mark Lowen gauges the mood in Turkey today - and detects a hardening of public opinion against anyone thou…

00:27:40  |   Sat 20 Aug 2016
Rebels with a Cause

Rebels with a Cause

India and Pakistan have often confronted each other - but each nation also has to deal with domestic security problems. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Justin Rowlatt hears from restive crowds who ha…

00:27:49  |   Sat 13 Aug 2016
Democracy and discontent: South Africa and Germany

Democracy and discontent: South Africa and Germany

Kate Adie introduces reports on South Africa's elections, Germany and migration, Kosovo's Olympic debut, Gujarat's Dalits march against discrimination and old meets new in Samoa.

00:28:03  |   Sat 06 Aug 2016
A Tale of Two Men in a City

A Tale of Two Men in a City

Two friends reunited in Baghdad, hot cuisine in Chengdu and slow traffic in Serbia.

00:27:58  |   Sat 30 Jul 2016
Aftermath

Aftermath

Kate Adie introduces analysis, reflection and reporting from correspondents around the world. As Turkey recovers from last week's attempted coup, Mark Urban finds that in Ankara the conspiracy theori…

00:27:43  |   Sat 23 Jul 2016
Heartlands

Heartlands

John Sopel on what to expect from Donald Trump’s coronation party. Cowboy country in Argentina - but where have all the cows gone?

We meet the Aboriginal activists trying to make native title to land …

00:27:58  |   Sat 16 Jul 2016
Keep A Cool Head

Keep A Cool Head

Kate Adie introduces tales of true grit - and grace under pressure - from around the world. As the USA agonises over questions of policing, race and firearms, Barbara Plett Usher in Minnesota hears h…

00:27:46  |   Thu 14 Jul 2016
The man who inspired a killer

The man who inspired a killer

Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world. Frank Gardner assesses the reaction to the bombing close to one of Islam's holiest sites. Shaimaa Khalil tells how a Pakistani ass…

00:27:52  |   Sat 09 Jul 2016
Middle class terrorists

Middle class terrorists

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world: This week: After the killing of 20 hostages at an upmarket café in Bangladesh Sanjoy Majumder hears how it is the backgrounds of th…

00:27:32  |   Thu 07 Jul 2016
Planes, Tanks and Teaspoons

Planes, Tanks and Teaspoons

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: with the Chilcot Report into the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, Jeremy Bowen is in Iraq, a country in a state of perpetual…

00:28:09  |   Sat 02 Jul 2016
The Brexit Wind Tunnel

The Brexit Wind Tunnel

Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories. Our man in Budapest, Nick Thorpe, hears how the Brexit vote has created fear and insecurity across eastern Europe. With Leave campaigners saying that Brit…

00:27:40  |   Thu 30 Jun 2016
Paint on the Cream Cake

Paint on the Cream Cake

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: Lucy Ash is in the midst of the Republic of Macedonia's "Colourful Revolution," where it's buildings and statues that are ge…

00:28:12  |   Thu 23 Jun 2016
Departures

Departures

Leaving's the theme of this edition. Bridget Kendall, the BBC's Russia specialist, is hanging up her headphones but not before she talks about secret agents and considers what the past can tell us ab…

00:27:55  |   Thu 16 Jun 2016
Old Habits Die Hard

Old Habits Die Hard

Around the world in less than half an hour. A slump in global oil prices has hit Angola hard but still, there are glimpses of wealth everywhere and abject poverty's never far away; the Iraqi city of …

00:27:56  |   Sat 11 Jun 2016
The Cupboard is Bare

The Cupboard is Bare

Reporters with the news behind the news. In this edition: it used to be Cuba, but today Venezuela is the more troubled of the two socialist allies and the country the US president prefers to visit; t…

00:27:44  |   Thu 09 Jun 2016
Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall

A week in the life of correspondents around the world. In this edition, the paint flies as the race for the presidency in Peru gets colourful; a battle for control of the Iraqi city of Falluja is abo…

00:28:24  |   Sat 04 Jun 2016
Strike! Strike! Strike!

Strike! Strike! Strike!

Correspondents look at some of the week's developments. In this edition, how the mounting industrial strife in France presents an increasingly serious challenge to President Hollande and his unpopula…

00:27:49  |   Thu 02 Jun 2016
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