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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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Voices From Libya’s Flood-hit East

Voices From Libya’s Flood-hit East

Kate Adie presents stories from Libya, Ukraine, Australia and the US

Anna Foster visits the flood-affected region of Derna, in Libya's east, where she speaks to survivors of the storm surge after two …

00:27:52  |   Sat 23 Sep 2023
Morocco: Tragedy in the High Atlas Mountains

Morocco: Tragedy in the High Atlas Mountains

Stories from Morocco, Gabon, Pakistan, Norway and Canada

A community in the High Atlas Mountains grapples with the devastation wrought by the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in more than one hundr…

00:28:40  |   Sat 16 Sep 2023
The parents suing over Gambia’s cough syrup scandal

The parents suing over Gambia’s cough syrup scandal

Kate Adie introduces stories from The Gambia, Iran, the USA, Chile and Hungary.

Dozens of bereaved families in the Gambia are taking legal action against an Indian drug manufacturer and Gambian health…

00:28:42  |   Sat 09 Sep 2023
The press under pressure in Indian-administered Kashmir

The press under pressure in Indian-administered Kashmir

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from Kashmir, Russia, Nigeria, Slovakia and Paraguay.

Understanding the complexities of politics and identity in Indian-administered Kashmir is not easy…

00:28:41  |   Sat 02 Sep 2023
Drug cartel violence spreads through Ecuador

Drug cartel violence spreads through Ecuador

Kate Adie introduces stories from Ecuador, Italy, North Korea, Denmark and South Africa.

Ecuador was once seen as an oasis of calm in a violent region: despite lying between the drug producing hubs of…

00:28:31  |   Sat 26 Aug 2023
The Sudanese refugees sheltering in Chad

The Sudanese refugees sheltering in Chad

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' stories from the Chad/Sudan border, Hawaii's Maui island, Belize, Portugal and Azerbaijan

More than a million people have fled violence in Sudan for r…

00:28:34  |   Sat 19 Aug 2023
Life and war in Yemen

Life and war in Yemen

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from Yemen, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Turkey and Ireland.

The city of Taiz in southwestern Yemen has survived thousands of days of siege conditions during the conf…

00:28:50  |   Sat 12 Aug 2023
Cambodia's strongman bows out

Cambodia's strongman bows out

Kate Adie introduces stories about Cambodia's outgoing Prime Minister, and from Pakistan, Romania, New Zealand and Germany.

Cambodia has suffered more tragedy than most, including civil wars, American…

00:28:40  |   Sat 05 Aug 2023
Israel's culture war over the Supreme Court

Israel's culture war over the Supreme Court

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and reporters' stories from Israel, Ukraine, Lebanon, the Czech Republic and Ghana

This year has seen the streets of Jerusalem thronged with protests and demonstra…

00:28:39  |   Sat 29 Jul 2023
Sudan: a neglected conflict

Sudan: a neglected conflict

Kate Adie introduces BBC correspondents' reports from Sudan, Spain, Tunisia, Italy and Mexico.

Sudan's newest civil war has been raging for more than three months - but first-hand images and reports o…

00:28:32  |   Sat 22 Jul 2023
Uruguay's Water Crisis

Uruguay's Water Crisis

Kate Adie introduces stories from Uruguay, India, Haiti, New Zealand and Botswana.

A long and severe drought in Uruguay has caused the country's worst ever water crisis. As fresh water reservoirs run …

00:28:36  |   Thu 20 Jul 2023
Wagner Group: Business as Usual?

Wagner Group: Business as Usual?

Kate Adie presents stories exploring events in Russia, the United States, Mexico, Lanzarote and South Africa.

After its failed march on Moscow, the Wagner Group was supposedly going to be disbanded an…

00:28:35  |   Sat 15 Jul 2023
After Jenin

After Jenin

Kate Adie introduces stories from the Occupied Territories, the Mediterranean Sea, Ukraine, California and Algeria.

After violent clashes in Jenin last week, an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal seems as…

00:28:52  |   Thu 13 Jul 2023
The Yazidis who survived Islamic State

The Yazidis who survived Islamic State

Kate Adie introduces stories from Iraqi Kurdistan's Yazidi community, the streets of Marseille, the former USSR and the Caribbean island of Nevis.

From 2011 to 2017, the Yazidi minority in Iraq lived …

00:28:40  |   Sat 08 Jul 2023
Grief in France's banlieues

Grief in France's banlieues

The bereaved mother of Nahel M., who was killed by police in Paris. And stories from Brazil, Somalia, Finland and Sicily.

Last week French police killed a 17-year old young man of North African origin…

00:28:51  |   Thu 06 Jul 2023
Tracing Syria's Captagon Trade

Tracing Syria's Captagon Trade

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' despatches from Lebanon and Jordan, Ukraine's battle fronts, the Caribbean island of Grenada, the BBC's bureaux abroad and the streets of the South B…

00:28:56  |   Sat 01 Jul 2023
The Wagner mutiny in Russia

The Wagner mutiny in Russia

The Wagner mutiny in Russia; and other stories from Russia, Peru, Bangladesh and Denmark.

The mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenaries ended as quickly as it started. The fighters had taken the southern …

00:28:46  |   Thu 29 Jun 2023
Ghana's healthcare brain drain

Ghana's healthcare brain drain

Kate Adie introduces stories from Ghana's hospitals, the Chinese-Russian border, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a research station on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the streets of Limerick in Irelan…

00:28:42  |   Sat 24 Jun 2023
Life and Death in North Korea

Life and Death in North Korea

Kate Adie introduces stories from North Korea, Canada, Guinea-Bissau, Peru and Jamaica.

North Korea sealed its borders when the pandemic struck, and little news from the isolated, oppressive state has…

00:28:19  |   Thu 22 Jun 2023
Donald Trump's courtroom drama

Donald Trump's courtroom drama

Kate Adie introduces dispatches from the USA, Pakistan, Germany, Japan and Italy.

In Florida this week, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges relating to unauthorised possession of cla…

00:28:35  |   Sat 17 Jun 2023
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