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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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
蜜芽传媒 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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蜜芽传媒 World Service FOOC
Fri 30 Dec 2011
An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive by...
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蜜芽传媒 World Service FOOC
Thu 29 Dec 2011
Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time "A history of Soviet failure written in a...
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蜜芽传媒 World Service FOOC
Wed 28 Dec 2011
The Truth is Our Currency Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997...
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蜜芽传媒 World Service FOOC
Tue 27 Dec 2011
The Road to Mandalay Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984.
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蜜芽传媒 World Service FOOC
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...
