From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide
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The son also rises
Stories from the Philippines, Chile, a Greek island and years of global climate talks
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Libya's anxiously-awaited elections
Stories from Libya's streets, Bosnian cities, Turkey's borders and Brazilian snack bars
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Tea with the Taliban next door
Stories from Afghanistan, Ethiopian battlefronts, Nicaragua's election and German forests
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New life amid the ashes in Greece
The aftermath of 2021 fires; tales of global journalism, Iowan opinion and Nigerian rites
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The endless search for Colombia's missing people
Stories from Colombia, South Africa, a giant insect farm in France and Italian wardrobes
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Nostalgia for the Gaddafi era?
A few Libyans now miss the late "Brother Leader"; tales from Denmark, Pakistan and Chile
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Japan's Grey Politics
Why does the new Japanese PM seem so familiar? Plus tales from Iraq, Australia and Kenya
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Starting again: The lives of refugees in their new home
What is it like to leave everything behind and begin life afresh?
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Flight MH17: Victims’ families share their stories
On trial but absent: The men accused of shooting down Flight MH17
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The human cost of prescription drug abuse
Half a million US dead from prescription opioids, but one supplier escapes prosecution
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A new life in Iraq
Iranians fleeing Iran search for a new life in Iraq, plus stories from Canada and Hungary
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Farewell to Germany’s ‘Mutti’
Farewell to ‘Mutti’, Germany’s Angela Merkel, plus stories from Brazil and Afghanistan
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Hunting for food, water and medicine, as Lebanon runs out
Our Beirut correspondent flies abroad in search of life-saving medicines
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Western military intervention after Afghanistan: When can it work?
Our correspondent on when military interventions have succeeded, and failed, in Africa
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Afghanistan: How did we get here?
With the Taliban back in charge, our correspondent searches his memory for clues
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On the frontline in Afghanistan, as one city after another falls to the Taliban
With soldiers in Kandahar as Taliban forces attack the city.
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Kidnappings, ethnic conflict, and Islamist insurgency: Nigeria’s violent problems
Can Nigeria be governed, with so many different sources of conflict across the country?
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Rebuilding Beirut one year after the blast: Renovation or more destruction?
The Beirut neighbourhood trying to retain its history as the city tries to rebuild
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Counting the cost: the homes and livelihoods destroyed in South Africa’s riots
A writer in Cape Town calls family and friends to hear who lost what in the recent riots
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No sign of it stopping: the spread of Covid in Bangladesh
With only a fraction of the population vaccinated, Covid is spreading across Bangladesh
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Pulling out: Western troops leave Afghanistan
A correspondent looks back on the West’s twenty year engagement in Afghanistan
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Suffering alone: the children held in a US refugee camp
Allegations of neglect and sexual abuse of child refugees in the US
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Spain: A nation divided
Spain’s Prime Minister provokes anger, by freeing leaders of Catalonia’s independence bid
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The aftermath of communal violence in Israel
People in Jaffa assesses the damage after clashes between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un cracks down on foreign influence
The “Hermit Kingdom” leader takes draconian measures to keep the outside world at bay
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Somaliland goes to the polls
The country which broke away from Somalia holds nationwide elections
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Instability on the Myanmar-Thai border
Local villagers try to find shelter as Karen insurgents battle the military
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The battle over property in East Jerusalem
The planned eviction of Palestinians reignites deeper tensions
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Migrant boat tragedy in the Canaries
The tragedy of the migrants crossing from Africa to the Canary Islands – 56 die en route
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India’s Covid crisis
India’s government loses popularity in Covid’s second wave