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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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Less Freedom, More Stability

Less Freedom, More Stability

Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been someone lying awake in Egypt waiting for the policeman's midnight knock; on mounting anger in Nigeria that the authorities aren't doing enough …

00:28:07  |   Sat 24 May 2014
Walk Warily in Waziristan

Walk Warily in Waziristan

Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in Waziristan, Pakistan's Taliban country; Mark Tully considers whether India's secular tradition is under threat now t…

00:28:21  |   Thu 22 May 2014
The Tourists Have Gone

The Tourists Have Gone

Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: empty hotels and a deserted holiday coastline in Kenya as tourists head home after a Foreign Office terrorism warning; five years after the d…

00:28:16  |   Sat 17 May 2014
Beauty and horror in South Sudan

Beauty and horror in South Sudan

Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the head of our correspondent in eastern Ukraine: watching the maple syrup wars in Canada: out on the town in Colomb…

00:28:09  |   Sat 10 May 2014
Heroes of Baghdad

Heroes of Baghdad

Global viewpoints. In this edition: Kevin Connolly visits the Baghdad book market and salutes the bravery of those who carry on with their daily lives amid a constant threat of violence; Jeremy Bowen…

00:27:58  |   Sat 03 May 2014
Dilemmas in Damascus

Dilemmas in Damascus

Despatches: Syrians, exhausted by a seemingly unending conflict, face agonising decisions over their future, as Lyse Doucet has been finding out. Misha Glenny's in Rio as violent protests continue le…

00:28:23  |   Sat 26 Apr 2014
End of Era

End of Era

Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to meet some of those still occupying government buildings in the east of Ukraine. Lives and jobs start to dis…

00:27:56  |   Sat 19 Apr 2014
A Happy Ending

A Happy Ending

The stories behind the stories. In this edition: why Germany's ambivalence towards Russia may emerge as east meets west to discuss Ukraine next week; West Bengal plans to restore the lost glory of Ko…

00:28:00  |   Sat 12 Apr 2014
Underneath the Mango Tree

Underneath the Mango Tree

Despatches from foreign correspondents. Today: Tim Whewell on what's caused the savage breakdown in law and order in the Central African Republic. As Afghans go to the polls, Lynne O'Donnell reflects…

00:28:03  |   Sat 05 Apr 2014
Are the Russians coming?

Are the Russians coming?

Correspondents' stories. In this edition, Humphrey Hawksley's in a part of Europe where an increase in Russian influence would not be unwelcome. Twenty-five years after the fall of Communism, Monica …

00:24:36  |   Sat 29 Mar 2014
Hirsute History + Desert Verse

Hirsute History + Desert Verse

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today, Jamie Coomarasamy meets the man who once was Crimea's one and only President and dreams of a new landscape; James Menendez g…

00:28:14  |   Sat 22 Mar 2014
Forensics and Scrummaging

Forensics and Scrummaging

Correspondents' stories from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today: Will Grant meets El Salvador's only forensic archaeologist, with the unenviable task of unearthing and identifying murde…

00:28:09  |   Thu 20 Mar 2014
History, Aliens and Chicken Wings

History, Aliens and Chicken Wings

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week Mark Lowen is reminded of his days in the Balkans as he talks about history to people in Crimea; three years after the start of the uprising in…

00:27:58  |   Sat 15 Mar 2014
Troubles in Paradise

Troubles in Paradise

Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Ukrainian journalist Andriy Kulykov wonders why silence is the order of the day with the armed men of Crimea. Peter Day is in…

00:28:05  |   Thu 13 Mar 2014
Courthouses and Codpieces

Courthouses and Codpieces

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. This week, with American and British combat troops soon to leave, the author and historian William Dalrymple gives his assessment o…

00:28:19  |   Sat 08 Mar 2014
spaceships in the desert

spaceships in the desert

Stories from correspondents around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In this programme Mark Urban hears an Iraqi policeman let rip about his own government and there are predictions of mayhem. In A…

00:28:19  |   Thu 06 Mar 2014
Revolutions are Unpredictable

Revolutions are Unpredictable

'When change happens, it can happen very, very fast,' Steve Rosenberg in Ukraine. Revolutions: no-one can be quite sure how they'll turn out, Kevin Connolly in Egypt. Bush fires in Australia: Jim Car…

00:28:23  |   Sat 01 Mar 2014
Here for Eternity?

Here for Eternity?

Correspondents with tales to tell. In this edition: Gabriel Gatehouse watching the unfolding revolution in Ukraine; Abigail Fielding-Smith in the Lebanese capital Beirut as the war in Syria creeps ev…

00:27:44  |   Thu 27 Feb 2014
The Hyenas Come to Town

The Hyenas Come to Town

London may be infested by urban foxes and Delhi beseiged by urban monkeys but Addis Ababa, as Martin Fletcher's been seeing for himself, is plagued by urban hyenas -- and they're ugly-looking creatur…

00:27:59  |   Sat 22 Feb 2014
Saddam Hussein Lives!

Saddam Hussein Lives!

Stories from foreign correspondents. In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi called Saddam Hussein and hears how difficult it is being named after the brutal and hated dictator; Lynne O'Donnell …

00:27:55  |   Thu 20 Feb 2014
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