From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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Taking Meat off the Menu
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Few French restaurants offer a menu without meat, so John Laurenson's been finding out...
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Why the Kissing's Had to Stop
Sat 20 Sep 2014
The kissing's had to stop in west Africa - a despatch from Mark Doyle about the Ebola...
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Domestic Strife
Sat 13 Sep 2014
Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories. This week Paul Wood hears warnings of to...
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The Silent Wards
Sat 6 Sep 2014
Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the world. This week Gabriel a...
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The Lucky Country
Sat 30 Aug 2014
Global despatches. In this edition, Australia's tough immigration policy comes under a...
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A Poet at War
Sat 23 Aug 2014
Foreign correspondents. Today: can a meeting of presidents halt the fighting in Why to...
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A Shopping List for Cuba
Sat 16 Aug 2014
Despatches from correspondents: Why should the west intervene with aid or arms? It's a...
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A Footnote to Conflict
Sat 9 Aug 2014
Foreign correspondents tell their stories - in this edition, discussions in Israel the...
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Aug 02 2014
Sat 2 Aug 2014
Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in to...
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Last Night in Gaza
Sat 26 Jul 2014
Correspondents tell their stories: a week in Gaza, Paul Adams; on the night train from...
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Whatever Happened to the War Song?
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Back in the days of the Vietnam War the airwaves were full of protest songs...
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Fasting under Fire
Thu 17 Jul 2014
Despatches. In this edition: some of the families caught up in Israel's fight against...
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Watching the World Cup in the Woods
Sat 12 Jul 2014
We join the German football fans watching the world cup in the middle of a forest.
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Tennis in Baghdad
Thu 10 Jul 2014
Jeremy Bowen laments the loss of everyday freedoms in Baghdad; Hilary Andersson the of...
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Two Worlds Collide
Sat 5 Jul 2014
Reporting the world: correspondents with insight, colour and analysis from Baghdad,...
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No More Boat People
Thu 3 Jul 2014
Global despatches: in this edition, why hunger is again taking hold in South Sudan - a...
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Hero or Villain?
Sat 28 Jun 2014
June the 28th 1914 was the day Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand.
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The Consequences of History
Thu 26 Jun 2014
The foreign interventionists whose actions have contributed to today's violent events...
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I Never Got to Florence
Sat 21 Jun 2014
Correspondents' stories. Few British go to the Italian seaside town of Alassio these -...
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Dilemma for the US
Thu 19 Jun 2014
'Getting rid of Saddam was the easy bit. ' The problems stack up for the United States...
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A Glimpse of the Future
Sat 14 Jun 2014
Two conflicting visions of the future present themselves on a visit to the Middle the...
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Guitar or Sitar?
Thu 12 Jun 2014
Correspondents with stories to tell: how is traditional Indian culture faring with the...
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Mort Pour La France
Sat 7 Jun 2014
The news -- with added insight, colour and perspective. In this edition, the unsung up...
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the Education Minister's Watch
Thu 5 Jun 2014
Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia -why it's...
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The News in 2039
Sat 31 May 2014
Global despatches: will the African elephant be extinct in two decades? And which of...
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Thurs May 29 2014: Spinning Myths
Thu 29 May 2014
Insight, colour, analysis and description. In this edition the stories come from Rio...
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Less Freedom, More Stability
Sat 24 May 2014
Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been someone lying awake in Egypt...
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Walk Warily in Waziristan
Thu 22 May 2014
Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in is...
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The Tourists Have Gone
Sat 17 May 2014
Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: empty hotels and a deserted...
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Beauty and horror in South Sudan
Sat 10 May 2014
Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the...
