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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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Nigeria’s Young Voters Find Their Voice

Nigeria’s Young Voters Find Their Voice

Nigeria's recent presidential election encouraged many young Nigerians to engage with the political process for the first time and cast a vote, despite a backdrop of voter intimidation and claims of …

00:28:31  |   Sat 04 Mar 2023
Uzbekistan’s Winter Energy Crisis

Uzbekistan’s Winter Energy Crisis

Kate Adie presents stories from Uzbekistan, Turkey, USA, South Africa and Sweden.

Uzbekistan is one of the largest gas producers in the world but is in the throes of a full-blown energy crisis. People…

00:28:40  |   Thu 02 Mar 2023
Moldova’s Divided Loyalties.

Moldova’s Divided Loyalties.

Kate Adie presents stories from Moldova, Estonia, Cambodia, Chile and the Seychelles.

Lucy Williamson visits the Moldovan enclave of Moldova Noua, which has been surrounded by pro-Russian forces since…

00:29:03  |   Sat 25 Feb 2023
Ukraine: One Year On

Ukraine: One Year On

Orla Guerin, senior international correspondent, reports from Ukraine's east, a region she has covered on different trips during the last year, on the permanent sense of danger lingering there, that …

00:28:52  |   Thu 23 Feb 2023
The questions after Turkey's earthquake

The questions after Turkey's earthquake

Kate Adie introduces analysis and reportage from correspondents in Turkey, Israel, Nigeria, Georgia and South Sudan.

While reporting from across southern Turkey after the February 6 earthquake, Nick B…

00:28:02  |   Sat 18 Feb 2023
Rescue hopes fade in Turkey and Syria

Rescue hopes fade in Turkey and Syria

Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Sao Tome and Principe and Lithuania.

Lyse Doucet has been in Southern Turkey reporting on the earthquake which has devastated towns there and …

00:28:35  |   Thu 16 Feb 2023
Southern Turkey: The Earthquake's Epicentre

Southern Turkey: The Earthquake's Epicentre

Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, the USA, Myanmar, Italy and Ukraine.

Anna Foster has been in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the recent earthquake, where diggers work to remove the debris, rev…

00:27:57  |   Sat 11 Feb 2023
Voices from Syria’s North-West

Voices from Syria’s North-West

Kate Adie presents stories from Syria, Nigeria, Romania, Armenia and Pakistan

Leila Molana-Allen has spoken to anxious friends and relatives in the Syrian diaspora who are preparing for the worst as r…

00:28:29  |   Thu 09 Feb 2023
Grief and Grievances in Israel and the Occupied West Bank

Grief and Grievances in Israel and the Occupied West Bank

After a surge in violence over the last week, in which several were killed in a military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and a synagogue attack in Israel, Yolande Knell visited the b…

00:28:48  |   Sat 04 Feb 2023
A Mosque Attack in Peshawar

A Mosque Attack in Peshawar

Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan Ukraine, Gibraltar, Uzbekistan and Namibia

More than 100 people were killed in an attack targeting police in a high security mosque in the northern city of Pes…

00:28:31  |   Thu 02 Feb 2023
A Bitter Winter in Afghanistan

A Bitter Winter in Afghanistan

Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, Peru, Russia, the US and Spain

As Afghanistan experiences its harshest winter in a decade, Lyse Doucet travels to Salang, the world's highest road tunnel. …

00:27:45  |   Sat 28 Jan 2023
Ukraine Dreams Of A Different Future

Ukraine Dreams Of A Different Future

Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nepal, Iraq, Norway and the US

Andrew Harding is at the frontline in Eastern Donbas, close to Russian lines, where soldiers share their dreams of the future af…

00:28:23  |   Sat 21 Jan 2023
China’s Great Reopening

China’s Great Reopening

Kate Adie presents stories from China, Brazil, Sri Lanka, the US and Portugal.

China has opened up its borders again ahead of the New Year festival. Late las year, Xi Jinping eased Covid restrictions …

00:28:38  |   Sat 14 Jan 2023
Brazil: United In Grief, Divided By Politics

Brazil: United In Grief, Divided By Politics

Kate Adie presents stories from Brazil, Russia, the US, South Korea and Italy

Brazilians this week mourned the loss of one of their greatest footballers, Pele, with hundreds of thousands going to view…

00:28:56  |   Sat 07 Jan 2023
A Year in Ukraine

A Year in Ukraine

Kate Adie presents a selection of stories from correspondents who have covered the war, from the invasion of Kyiv to the present day. Fergal Keane remembers the beekeepers of the Donbas who he met in…

00:28:52  |   Sat 31 Dec 2022
Friendship, Fury and a French Suit

Friendship, Fury and a French Suit

Kate Adie presents highlights from 2022, beginning in Moscow, where we hear the story of the friendship between BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg and Valentina, a vendor at a newspaper kiosk. Earlier…

00:29:01  |   Sat 24 Dec 2022
Haiti: A Gangster’s Paradise

Haiti: A Gangster’s Paradise

Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, Germany, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Sweden.

Orla Guerin reports from Haiti where gangs now control 60 per cent of the capital and surrounding areas. Hundreds of peop…

00:29:35  |   Sat 17 Dec 2022
‘Everything that is good has been taken’

‘Everything that is good has been taken’

Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Iran, Niger, Bhutan and Lithuania.

Russian troops captured Irpin, north-west of Kyiv, early on in the invasion. When the satellite town was liberated, the atro…

00:29:26  |   Sat 10 Dec 2022
From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent

Kate Adie presents stories from China, Ukraine, Moldova, Zimbabwe and the US.

Protests have taken place across China, from Shanghai, to Guangdong to Beijing after a fire in Urumqi killed ten people wh…

00:28:50  |   Sat 03 Dec 2022
A Bleak Future For Afghanistan’s Young Women

A Bleak Future For Afghanistan’s Young Women

Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Colombia and Ireland.

The Taliban announced a ban on women going to parks, swimming pools and gyms this month, following one on girls attendin…

00:28:54  |   Sat 26 Nov 2022
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