From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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Fear and Fatalism in Kiev
Sat 29 Jan 2022
People both scared and blasé: first impressions from the BBC's new correspondent in Kiev
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Russa’s Troops: Not Really a Threat to Ukraine?
Thu 27 Jan 2022
The Russian people who deny that their troops represent any threat to Ukraine.
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Searching for Mexico's Drug War Disappeared
Sat 22 Jan 2022
The relatives searching for loved ones, missing presumed dead in Mexico's drugs war.
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Serbia and Djokovic: More Than a Matter of Tennis
Sat 15 Jan 2022
How Australia's treatment of Serbia's Novak Djokovic became an international political row
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Uncovering China's Internet Trolls
Sat 8 Jan 2022
Who is behind the online abuse frequently heaped on those who dare to criticise China?
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2022: A Year of Recovery?
New Year's Day 2022
Hopes, fears and the chances of rebuilding in the year ahead.
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Turkey's Cost of Living CrisisTurkey's Cost of Living Crisis
Sat 18 Dec 2021
Soaring inflation means even basic goods are now out of reach for many Turkish people
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Madagascar: The Threat of Starvation
Sat 11 Dec 2021
With severe hunger widespread, could this become the world's first climate change famine?
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Sleepless in Seoul: South Korea’s Exhausted Workforce
Sat 4 Dec 2021
South Korea has a growing economy and expanding cultural influence, but at what cost?
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Anti-Lockdown Protests Hit The Netherlands
Sat 27 Nov 2021
Anti-lockdown, anti-vaxx: violent protests hit Rotterdam and The Hague
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The Desperation of Asylum Seekers on Poland's Border
Sat 20 Nov 2021
Asylum seekers were lured to Belarus, but then left stranded on the Polish border.
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The Battle for Ethiopia
Sat 13 Nov 2021
Fighting on all fronts as rebel groups get ever closer to Ethiopia's capital.
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A Cup of Tea with the Taliban Neighbours
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Three months after taking power, what are we to make of Taliban rule in Afghanistan?
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Bosnia: New Tensions From An Old Conflict
Sat 6 Nov 2021
Bosnian-Serb leaders stand accused of stoking nationalist sentiment
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Can the world reach a deal?
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Leaders have gathered for the COP summit, but is the world in a mood for global deals?
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Children for sale: Afghanistan's desperate and impoverished
Sat 30 Oct 2021
Afghan parents in the west of the country have been selling their children to buy food.
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Sudan's coup: democracy delayed again
Thu 28 Oct 2021
A general has seized power in Sudan, with people protesting against yet another coup
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Eric Zemmour: France's new right wing contender
Sat 23 Oct 2021
France has a new contender for the presidency: controversial TV presenter Eric Zemmour
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Nostalgia For Gaddafi
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Ten years after his death, some in Libya mourn the loss of Muammar Gaddafi
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Drug dealing, murder and gentrification: the persisting contrasts of Marseille
Thu 14 Oct 2021
France's President Macron heads to Marseille, as the city is hit by new gangland violence
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A Haitian Odyssey Across The Americas
Sat 9 Oct 2021
Migrants from Haiti cross the Americas; tales from Thailand, Brazil, Australia & Lebanon
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Bumps in the road for the Czech Republic
Thu 7 Oct 2021
PM Babis at bay; tales from the UK to Afghanistan, France, Kenya and the Aland islands
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Silence Falls in Libya
Sat 2 Oct 2021
Libyans grow cagier; tales from the Netherlands, the West Bank, Mozambique & the Balkans
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Anxiety over Afghanistan
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Jeremy Bowen reflects from Kabul; stories from Germany, Spain, Switzerland and France
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A tight race in Germany's elections
Sat 25 Sep 2021
Stories from the German election campaign trail, the USA, Colombia, India and Ireland
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China's New Rules for Society
Thu 23 Sep 2021
The Party reaches into everyday life; plus stories from France, Lithuania, Chile and Ghana
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18/09/2021
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Iranian exiles in Iraq, plus stories from Afghanistan, Canada, Hungary and Georgia.
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Lebanon's Medicines Emergency
Sat 4 Sep 2021
Economic crisis leaves pharmacies empty; plus Nagorno Karabakh, the USA, Italy, and France
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Forever wars – and how they can end
Sat 28 Aug 2021
The ways out of war in Afghanistan and in Africa; tales from Israel, Spain and Seychelles
