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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Sunlounger economics
Sat 5 May 2012
In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece be...
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Congo warlord
Sat 28 Apr 2012
The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields...
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Asparagus fever!
Sat 21 Apr 2012
Bahrain: Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines why all sides in the bitter conflict there in...
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14 April 2012
Sat 14 Apr 2012
Fergal Keane is on Turkey's border with Syria listening to the experiences of those...
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Libyan pets
Sat 31 Mar 2012
What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's transition from to Kevin...
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Afghan New Year
Sat 24 Mar 2012
Afghans enjoy New Year celebrations but Lyse Doucet finds they are concerned about the...
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Boybandmania
Thu 22 Mar 2012
One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US. Arrest warrant issued a...
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the Kony film
Sat 17 Mar 2012
A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding...
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Benin Voodoo
Thu 15 Mar 2012
A voodoo priest visits in Benin; disappearances in Sri Lanka; a truce in Gaza and from...
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March 10, 2012
Sat 10 Mar 2012
The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - Julian May hears his story as...
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March 08, 2012
Thu 8 Mar 2012
The extraordinarily spry 80-year-olds of Shikoku: Peter Day's met them and tells us as...
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March 3, 2012
Sat 3 Mar 2012
'A revolution with almost no co-ordination or planning. ' That was Ian Pannell's as he...
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Abbottabad, and Greeks in Germany
Thu 1 Mar 2012
Did you ever see bin Laden? Aleem Maqbool is in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where they've by...
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25 Feb, 2012
Sat 25 Feb 2012
Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how impressed have they been...
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23 Feb 12
Thu 23 Feb 2012
Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not? It's a by in...
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18 Feb 2012
Sat 18 Feb 2012
Guns remain the ultimate arbiter of disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya. And in Benghazi is...
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16 Feb 2012
Thu 16 Feb 2012
No need for expensive cab fares this time! The regime change in The Maldives proves a...
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Feb 11, 2012
Sat 11 Feb 2012
That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension and...
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9 Feb, 2012
Thu 9 Feb 2012
From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government in...
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Feb 4, 2012
Sat 4 Feb 2012
After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and...
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2 Feb, 2012
Thu 2 Feb 2012
A rich seam of frustration - over poverty, bad leadership and corruption -- is being...
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28 Jan, 2012
Sat 28 Jan 2012
From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris.
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26 Jan 2012
Thu 26 Jan 2012
Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall...
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Jan 21, 2012
Sat 21 Jan 2012
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives a...
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Jan 19, 2012
Thu 19 Jan 2012
The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it.
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Jan 14, 2012
Sat 14 Jan 2012
The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Jan 07, 2012
Sat 7 Jan 2012
Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a...
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Dec 31, 2011
Sat 31 Dec 2011
Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel...
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service FOOC
Fri 30 Dec 2011
An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive by...