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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Ukraine's Battlefield Doctors
Sat 18 Jun 2022
How Ukrainian surgeons are learning to operate in the middle of a warzone
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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Amazon Defenders
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Remembering the work of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
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Afrikaans: The Language Which Still Divides
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Why South Africans are outraged at a plane passenger test in the Afrikaans language.
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Life Under Russian Occupation
Thu 9 Jun 2022
A Ukrainian woman's tale of what happened when Russian troops took over her city
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The Arab World's New Drug of Choice
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Captagon is turning users into addicts, and funding militant groups in the Middle East.
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The Ukrainians deported to Russia
Thu 2 Jun 2022
Ukrainian citizens say they were 'tricked' into travelling to Russia without explanation
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Violent Protest in Sri Lanka
Sat 28 May 2022
As Sri Lanka runs out of fuel, food and medicine, its people are taking to the streets.
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Escape From Russian Occupation
Thu 26 May 2022
The Ukrainian volunteers driving into Russian-held territory to help people flee.
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Disappeared: The Women Gone Missing in Afghanistan's Prisons
Sat 21 May 2022
The story of women in Afghanistan, arrested and held without charge for "moral crimes."
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Lockdown Life in Shanghai
Sat 14 May 2022
The stress and strain of holding a family together with no end to lockdown in sight
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The Story of a Russian War Crime
Sat 7 May 2022
How one woman in Bucha saw her husband murdered, her home and her life destroyed.
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Tackling the Cocaine Trade in Honduras
Sat 30 Apr 2022
We join police fighting the drugs trade, as their ex-president faces trafficking charges
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The Threat of Rising Waters in Bangladesh
Sat 23 Apr 2022
The Bangladeshis rebuilding their lives again and again to escape rising rivers and sea
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What do Russians think of the war in Ukraine?
Sat 16 Apr 2022
A look at Russian opinion now that dissent has been criminalised and protestors arrested.
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Ukraine: The War in the Countryside
Sat 9 Apr 2022
Stories of what happened when Russia's invasion reached Ukraine's villages
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Argentina’s Memories of war
Sat 2 Apr 2022
The Falklands War casts a shadow over Argentina, 40 years on
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Russia’s path of destruction
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Moscow has cast a new shadow over Europe, as the dead lay unburied in Ukraine's cities
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Thwarted hopes in Afghanistan
Sat 26 Mar 2022
The Taliban makes a U-turn on secondary school girls' education
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Ukraine’s unified resistance
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Putin miscalculates support among the Russian-speaking Ukrainians for his invasion
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On Kharkiv’s Frontline
Sat 19 Mar 2022
Russia's bombardment of Kharkiv has laid bare the horror of the invasion
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Crossing into unknown territory
Thu 17 Mar 2022
The Russian invasion has raised the possibility of a new Cold War
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Ukraine’s living nightmare
Sat 12 Mar 2022
Ukrainian cities suffer huge losses amid Russia's sustained bombardment
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Peace talks in Antalya
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Israel enters the fray as mediator between Ukraine and Russia
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Kyiv’s last stand
Sat 5 Mar 2022
A sea of humanity flees Kyiv as the city battles to fight off the Russian onslaught
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Shock and anger in Eastern Siberia
Thu 3 Mar 2022
A visit to an Eastern Siberian village where shock and anger prevail over Ukraine
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Putin's Soviet Ambitions
Sat 26 Feb 2022
Moscow attempts to resurrect the former Soviet Union from the ashes
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Brazil's Deadly Landslides
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Deadly landslides hit the city of Petrópolis, leaving many dead and homeless
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Return of the Chagos Islanders
Sat 19 Feb 2022
Fifty years after their removal, a group go back to visit the land they once called home
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Still There: The Migrants Trapped in Calais Limbo
Thu 17 Feb 2022
France is making life tougher for those camped in Calais to try to deter them from coming
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The Paris Terrorism Attack Goes To Trial
Sat 12 Feb 2022
Victims of the 2015 Paris attacks and relatives of the dead witness the suspects on trial