From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from 蜜芽传媒 correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.
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Thu 29 Dec 2011
Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time "A history of Soviet failure written in a...
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Wed 28 Dec 2011
The Truth is Our Currency Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997...
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Tue 27 Dec 2011
The Road to Mandalay Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984.
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Boxing Day 2011
"The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997 an...
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Dec 24, 2011
Christmas Eve 2011
A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via War...
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Dec 17, 2011
Sat 17 Dec 2011
The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in a...
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Dec 10, 2011
Sat 10 Dec 2011
'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show...
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Dec 3, 2011
Sat 3 Dec 2011
Being Italian is bad for your health! That's the contention from Bologna where winter...
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Nov 26, 2011
Sat 26 Nov 2011
'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned observer to Andrew Harding a...
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Nov 19, 2011
Sat 19 Nov 2011
Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo a...
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Nov 12, 2011
Sat 12 Nov 2011
"That's nobody's business but the Turks'. " A quote from one of several songs which are...
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Nov 10, 2011
Thu 10 Nov 2011
'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for but as...
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Nov 05, 2011
Sat 5 Nov 2011
America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East. And Reggie Nadelson's there, in...
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Nov 03, 2011
Thu 3 Nov 2011
Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about...
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Oct 29, 2011
Sat 29 Oct 2011
The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia indicates, according to Fergal for...
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Oct 27, 2011
Thu 27 Oct 2011
A dystopian vision of Venice - Rachel Harvey's words as she watches the flood waters...
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22 Oct 2011
Sat 22 Oct 2011
Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel was...
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20 Oct 2011
Thu 20 Oct 2011
Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world. Today Jonathan Head ask what keeps...
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15 Oct 2011
Sat 15 Oct 2011
Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights...
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13 Oct, 2011
Thu 13 Oct 2011
'I'll Not Do It Again!' That's the verdict of some foreign businessmen, out of pocket...
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08 Oct 2011
Sat 8 Oct 2011
Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious reminders Lyse Doucet has...
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Oct 6, 2011
Thu 6 Oct 2011
A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little.
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Oct 1, 2011
Sat 1 Oct 2011
An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway.
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29 Sept, 2011
Thu 29 Sep 2011
They came from all over: serious men from Seville and Madrid with their fine suits and...
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24 September 2011
Sat 24 Sep 2011
Kate Adie shares stories behind the headlines with correspondents around the world....
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22 Sept 11
Thu 22 Sep 2011
Katie Adie presents more despatches from foreign correspondents. As forces try to oust...
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Sept 17, 2011
Sat 17 Sep 2011
Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final -- a...
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Sept 15, 2011
Thu 15 Sep 2011
How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with of air...
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Sept 10, 2011
Sat 10 Sep 2011
Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi...
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Sept 3, 2011
Sat 3 Sep 2011
The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was out shopping -- and tells a...
