From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.
Episodes to download
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Battles over Books and Statues
Sat 11 Apr 2015
History rears its head, not for the first time, in this edition of From Our Own...
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'A Win-Win Outcome'
Sat 4 Apr 2015
The stories behind the week's news: what's led to this outbreak of fighting in Yemen?...
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A Dramatic Turnaround
Sat 21 Mar 2015
Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: from elected to Death...
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'We Dazed Them!'
Thu 19 Mar 2015
Around the world in less than half an hour! In this edition: euphoria in the Nigerian...
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Novice on the Front Line
Sat 14 Mar 2015
News and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the foreign fighters signing...
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Dreams Deferred, Hope on Hold
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Reporters' stories. Obstacles to President Obama's immigration reforms pile up -- it a...
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The Death of Gypsy Music
Sat 7 Mar 2015
The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the music which a...
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Please Don't Kill Our Sons
Thu 5 Mar 2015
Around the world with correspondents' stories. In this edition: executions in - the a...
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The Devil's Building Site
Sat 28 Feb 2015
Around the world in less than half an hour! Today: a four-day trek through the parts a...
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The Best Nightclub in Africa
Thu 26 Feb 2015
Story-telling from around the world. In this edition Charlotte Pritchard travels to in...
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The Athens Experiment
Sat 21 Feb 2015
The human lives behind the headlines: a view from the pistachio field after a tense of...
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Please Mick. Not boring ..
Thu 19 Feb 2015
The correspondent's trade: memories of the late Ian McDougall who filed for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ in...
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A Pig of a Sea
Sat 14 Feb 2015
More and more migrants are trying to cross the Mediterranean and there are suggestions...
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Tea and Cakes in Addis
Thu 12 Feb 2015
Questions and answers beyond the headlines. Little urgency apparent as the factions in...
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Jordan Retaliates
Sat 7 Feb 2015
The news behind the news. In this edition Paul Adams is in Jordan as the country takes...
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Into the Line of Fire
Thu 5 Feb 2015
Around the world in 28-minutes. Residents of eastern Ukraine fear the war raging them...
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Tomorrow You Will Be Heroes
Sat 31 Jan 2015
The human stories behind the headlines. Like any war, the one against Ebola is leaving...
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A Cosy Dinner in Leipzig
Thu 29 Jan 2015
What are they talking about? In Germany there's emotional debate about Pegida; Libyans...
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The Revolt Against Austerity
Sat 24 Jan 2015
'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually cropped up in the Greek election...
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The Knot Comes to the Comb
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Correspondents' stories: in this edition Maria Margaronis on the keenly-awaited Greek...
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Poached Pangolin
Sat 17 Jan 2015
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa in...
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Charlie Hebdo
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Looking beyond the headlines: correspondents with insight and analysis consider: Hebdo...
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Everything to Play For
Sat 3 Jan 2015
Insight, colour, analysis: in this edition, the once impregnable Rajapaksa camp is as...
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Dec 27,2014: I Hate New York!
Sat 27 Dec 2014
Seasonal stories and festive fables: Mike Wendling strongly disagrees with the thought...
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The Heaviest Coffin
Sat 20 Dec 2014
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa on...
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A New Empire
Sat 13 Dec 2014
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. 'For God, Tsar and Nation'.
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Dec 06: Spies are Everywhere
Sat 6 Dec 2014
Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie travels to China's most -...
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The Buckwheat Barometer
Sat 29 Nov 2014
Despatches. Steve Rosenberg sets out to discover who the Russian public holds for and...
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Swimming in Iran
Sat 22 Nov 2014
Foreign correspondents. Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers in Ukraine who want the of...
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The Missing Students
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Despatches from around the world. In this edition: Will Grant on the protests in City...