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.
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Jerusalem On Edge
Sat 8 Nov 2014
Foreign correspondents. Today, Kevin Connolly on tension in Jerusalem:- a reminder, he...
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Talking to Ghosts
Thu 6 Nov 2014
Reporters. Today, from Sierra Leone: why covering the Ebola outbreak is an assignment...
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The Ghosts of old Naples
Sat 1 Nov 2014
Reporters. Today: Alan Johnston on the richness of the past lying in the bones of the...
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The Most Dangerous Job in th World?
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Correspondents'despatches: Gabriel Gatehouse with the medical team who have collected...
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The Flying River
Sat 25 Oct 2014
Reporters around the world. Misha Glenny says surely it's a national emergency -- but...
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Grown Heroes
Thu 23 Oct 2014
War may still be raging in the east, but Ukraine's gearing up for elections -- and are...
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Spectres of Afghanistan
Sat 18 Oct 2014
The past looms large over Afghanistan's new leader -- Fergal Keane says the scale of a...
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Rio Rubbish
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Macchiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio...
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The Battle for Hong Kong
Sat 11 Oct 2014
'Caught between the demands of the masses and the stern imperatives of Beijing's Keane...
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A Tap You Can't Turn Off
Thu 9 Oct 2014
The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made...
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Three Questions for Mr Leung
Sat 4 Oct 2014
The questions arising from a week of protest in Hong Kong are asked by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s China...
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A New Egypt
Thu 2 Oct 2014
Global despatches: some are pleased at what President al-Sisi's achieved in his first...
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Fractured Syllogisms
Sat 27 Sep 2014
Despatches from around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying...
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Taking Meat off the Menu
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Few French restaurants offer a menu without meat, so John Laurenson's been finding out...
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Why the Kissing's Had to Stop
Sat 20 Sep 2014
The kissing's had to stop in west Africa - a despatch from Mark Doyle about the Ebola...
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Domestic Strife
Sat 13 Sep 2014
Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories. This week Paul Wood hears warnings of to...
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The Silent Wards
Sat 6 Sep 2014
Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the world. This week Gabriel a...
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The Lucky Country
Sat 30 Aug 2014
Global despatches. In this edition, Australia's tough immigration policy comes under a...
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A Poet at War
Sat 23 Aug 2014
Foreign correspondents. Today: can a meeting of presidents halt the fighting in Why to...
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A Shopping List for Cuba
Sat 16 Aug 2014
Despatches from correspondents: Why should the west intervene with aid or arms? It's a...
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A Footnote to Conflict
Sat 9 Aug 2014
Foreign correspondents tell their stories - in this edition, discussions in Israel the...
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Aug 02 2014
Sat 2 Aug 2014
Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in to...
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Last Night in Gaza
Sat 26 Jul 2014
Correspondents tell their stories: a week in Gaza, Paul Adams; on the night train from...
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Whatever Happened to the War Song?
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Back in the days of the Vietnam War the airwaves were full of protest songs...
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Fasting under Fire
Thu 17 Jul 2014
Despatches. In this edition: some of the families caught up in Israel's fight against...
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Watching the World Cup in the Woods
Sat 12 Jul 2014
We join the German football fans watching the world cup in the middle of a forest.
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Tennis in Baghdad
Thu 10 Jul 2014
Jeremy Bowen laments the loss of everyday freedoms in Baghdad; Hilary Andersson the of...
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Two Worlds Collide
Sat 5 Jul 2014
Reporting the world: correspondents with insight, colour and analysis from Baghdad,...
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No More Boat People
Thu 3 Jul 2014
Global despatches: in this edition, why hunger is again taking hold in South Sudan - a...
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Hero or Villain?
Sat 28 Jun 2014
June the 28th 1914 was the day Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand.