I Am My Own Correspondent
Inspired by the BBC correspondents who share their stories behind the stories they tell, award-winning documentary director Lauren Anders Brown has done the same with her team of correspondents- just herself. Digging through her archives of over 6 years of documentary filmmaking while filming in over 40 countries, she has pulled her own set of untold stories from behind the scenes for this podcast series. Season 2 is sponsored by the charity Global Health Film. Visit globalhealthfilm.org to learn more about their work supporting storytellers for change. For episode extras and to support the podcast visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/labcollaborate
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Episode 25 LIVE at Cupmatch in Bermuda
Celebrating Emanicaption Day, the day that slavery was abolished in the British Empire, I bring you live to the colourful event that is cupmatch - Bermuda's biggest holiday and annual cricket match b…
Episode 24 in Australia
From the land down under where you'll find the most expensive flat white coffees, this last episode in season 2 looks at the health impact racial discrimination has on the aboriginal population in Au…
Episode 23 in Eswatini
Crossing time zones physical and cultural, I land in the newly renamed kingdom of Eswatini and listen to young women speak comfortably about one of the world's historically uncomfortable topics - men…
Episode 22 in Rwanda
In a country with human rights concerns past and present, the country's future doctors are delivering data that are helping to shape health outcomes within and outside their borders. And there's good…
Episode 21 in Makeni, Sierra Leone
Travelling by plane, boat, and then car resulting in a standoff on a suspension bridge brings us deep into Sierra Leone to hear from one of the Malimba Queen football players. This episode is in memo…
Episode 20 in Guatemala
The final filming days of the award-winning documentary The Checklist Effect were not the shortest, simplest or most straightforward. In fact they were as winding as the roads in Guatemala and as rev…
Episode 19 in Uganda
Capturing a power cut during a surgery in Uganda leads to more questions about how the country manages to keep its patients safe during operations.
This episode features a lifebox pulse oximeter, v…
Episode 18 in Cambodia
Wrapping up 2021 with one last story coming from Cambodia and the impact NightCare has had for one mother who was able to transition from performing sex work.
NightCare is a programme run by Saving …
Episode 17 in Torit, South Sudan
Long layovers, luggage restrictions, and lack of information lead up to a mother's courage to challenge the legal system in the world's youngest country still riddled with conflict.
This month's epi…
Episode 16 in Touchemoulin, Haiti
In a place I would live in and visit over a dozen times, comes my first story from Haiti and a group of doctors brining hope to people suffering from an unknown neurological disease not in prescripti…
Episode 15 in Ghana
Coming out of COVID restrictions, I share what its like back in the field on my first film shoot since the pandemic in Ghana.
Episode 14 in Mongolia
Before digital nomads and social distancing, isolation has always been a way of life for Mongolians but when a health concern comes up how do they access services deep in the stepps?
Episode 13 in Eastern Ukraine
In Ukraine disputed Donbas region on the border with Russia, population control is less about the perscriptions and procedures and more about controlling the overwhelming violence occuring inside the…
Episode 12 in Myanmar
Spending most of my time in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, I felt the need to travel to Myanmar to experience the country where extremists persecuted and evicted over a million of it's own citizen…
Episode 11 in Bermuda
In this anniversary episode celebrating one year of this podcast combined with a release from lockdown (again) we find ourselves in Bermuda discussing with a taxi driver the logistics of being locked…
Episode 10 in King City, California
With the US Election looming, this episode brings us back to 2015 to some inspirational Americans that redefined the American dream for me.
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Episode 9 in Beira, Mozambique
Written and recorded during a hurricane looking back on one woman's story of survival of a cyclone while menstruating in Mozambique.
Episode 8 on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Not from an official film shoot, but unofficially many lessons learned from the highest mountain in Africa like how to knit a scarf while climbing, coffee beans bought at a petrol station are some of…
Episode 7 in Beirut, Lebanon
After a false start of filming a new documentary and surviving a snowstorm in the Middle East to get to Beirut, I reconnect with a friend from my Oxford days and learn about the human rights issues f…
Episode 6 in Johannesburg, South Africa on #MandelaDay
Finishing my feature documentary WOMENstruate in Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, I had just wrapped my day filming in the first when I learned I had to skip to the last location completely unpr…