蜜芽传媒

From Our Own Correspondent marks its 60th birthday with a special selection of despatches from the archives: in 1978, Michael Elkins, an American Jew in Jerusalem, finds Israeli service is not up to the standards he expects; in 1979, Clive Small in Washington gets a tip-off from the White House about the Iranian hostage crisis; Misha Glenny meets a hard-drinking Georgian in 1993; and Charles Wheeler feels the tensions in Cyprus in 1958.

Neil Bruce witnesses the end of colonialism in the then Belgian Congo in 1960; Robert Challis in Egypt in 1970 finds optimism for peace in the Middle East; Bob Kearsley finds China is opening up to Western visitors in 1975; Diana Goodman gets rare and sobering access to a Russian home for disabled children in 1996; and that same year Fergal Keane writes to his newborn son in his moving Letter to Daniel.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Photo: US President Jimmy Carter signs the order blocking Iranian funds in US banks, on November 14, 1979 in Washingont DC, during the US-Iranian hostage crisis. Credit: AFP/Getty Images