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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The President's Golden Scissors
Sat 28 Sep 2013
Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - so...
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The Love Hunters
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Global despatches. Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the a...
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The Dry Bones of a Thousand Empires
Sat 21 Sep 2013
Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen in Damascus reflects on the lessons a learns...
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Unanswered Questions
Sat 14 Sep 2013
Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world. Following the death...
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A Shattered Mosaic
Sat 7 Sep 2013
Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa...
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A Banquet of Unpalatable Choices
Sat 31 Aug 2013
Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in Washington on difficult decisions a...
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You Can't Kill an Idea
Sat 24 Aug 2013
Correspondents' despatches: the wealthy principality of Liechtenstein is forced to up...
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Seventy-Two Snipers
Sat 17 Aug 2013
Correspondents' stories. Today: Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where the mood, at the end of a...
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Prepared to Die
Sat 10 Aug 2013
Will the Egyptian army move in to break up the camp in Cairo set up by supporters of a...
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the Himalayan Tsunami
Sat 3 Aug 2013
Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told they could face further a...
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The Albanian Riviera
Sat 27 Jul 2013
Albania, not so long ago a redoubt of hardline Communism, is now hoping for EU membership.
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Mrs Wong and Mrs Lim Go Shopping
Sat 20 Jul 2013
"He knew nothing about politics. " A father talks to Humphrey Hawksley about his only a...
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A Million Smartphones
Thu 18 Jul 2013
The Bulgarian establishment under threat from a million smartphones - Nick Thorpe on...
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Return to Rangoon
Sat 13 Jul 2013
Quentin Sommerville talks to protestors on Cairo's streets; Andrew Harding returns to...
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Saints and Sinners
Thu 11 Jul 2013
The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the myth...
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You Can't Hug on Facebook
Sat 6 Jul 2013
Portuguese people are leaving the country in their thousands, travelling to the former...
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A House in Damascus
Thu 4 Jul 2013
What's happened to her house in the Old City in Damascus? Diana Darke hears how it's...
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A Thousand Horses Come to Town
Sat 29 Jun 2013
A thousand horses. Three thousand sheep. And people, thousands of them too, clustered...
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The Story That Never Happened
Thu 27 Jun 2013
It's the great reconciliation story which never happened -- Andrew Hosken in Libya on...
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A Seat With a View
Sat 22 Jun 2013
Air travel may be not quite the glamorous, magical experience it once was but our Day,...
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Discontent on the Nile
Thu 20 Jun 2013
'Everything is worse after the revolution' - tourism workers along the River Nile in...
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A Demo a Day
Sat 15 Jun 2013
A passion for protest: street demonstrations, rarely permitted in the days of Mubarak,...
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God Bless Hungary!
Thu 13 Jun 2013
Hungarians fight the floods! This collection of despatches from radio correspondents...
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Mussolini's Gay Island
Sat 8 Jun 2013
Correspondents' despatches from around the globe. Who'll emerge victorious from the in...
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Is Mr Erdogan Listening?
Thu 6 Jun 2013
Is the Turkish prime minister Mr Erdogan listening to the demonstrators? James has the...
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The World's Troubles - Put on Hold!
Sat 1 Jun 2013
A world that's not just full of doom and gloom: Anna Borzello on the remarkable that a...
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A Croc at the Door!
Thu 30 May 2013
Hungry crocodiles are invading homes in northern Australia looking for the family pet,...
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The German Sense of Humour
Sat 25 May 2013
Reporters around the world with the news behind the headlines: Aleem Maqbool talks of...
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A Good Operator
Thu 23 May 2013
Correspondents around the world: Jeremy Bowen on the increasing difficulties of the in...
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Conspiracy!
Sat 18 May 2013
Correspondents' stories from around the world: a field day for conspiracy theorists as...