From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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On the Brink
Thu 18 Jun 2015
Insight, context and colour. Today, the barbs fly as Greece seems to be stumbling for...
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Between Life and Death
Fri 12 Jun 2015
Storytelling and writing. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is in Sicily which waves...
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The Battle for Aden
Thu 11 Jun 2015
Insight, colour, context, detail. In this edition, war rips the heart out of old Aden...
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A Turkish Mosaic
Sat 6 Jun 2015
Windows on the world. Today: diverse and contradictory views about the Turkish and the...
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The Last Election?
Thu 4 Jun 2015
Context and colour. In today's edition: Turkey at the crossroads ahead of Sunday's the...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Sat 30 May 2015
News and current affairs storytelling, context and colour: the Russians contemplating...
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The American Dream in Trouble
Thu 28 May 2015
Talking points from around the globe. In this edition, the gulf between rich and poor...
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The War That Made Itself At Home
Sat 23 May 2015
Storytelling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Fergal Keane...
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A Coup Crumbles
Thu 21 May 2015
The programme that takes you places. In this edition to two countries, Burundi and to...
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Stranded at Sea
Sat 16 May 2015
Around the world. Today - the increasingly desperate plight of men, women and children...
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Reversing the Ageing Process
Sat 9 May 2015
Now where have I put the car keys? A Japanese neuro-scientist believes a regular brain...
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The Lucky Ones
Sat 2 May 2015
The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition: a week after the...
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Sahafa BBC
Sat 25 Apr 2015
The human stories behind the news headlines: dodging bullets while trying to reach of...
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Battles over Books and Statues
Sat 11 Apr 2015
History rears its head, not for the first time, in this edition of From Our Own...
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'A Win-Win Outcome'
Sat 4 Apr 2015
The stories behind the week's news: what's led to this outbreak of fighting in Yemen?...
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A Dramatic Turnaround
Sat 21 Mar 2015
Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: from elected to Death...
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'We Dazed Them!'
Thu 19 Mar 2015
Around the world in less than half an hour! In this edition: euphoria in the Nigerian...
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Novice on the Front Line
Sat 14 Mar 2015
News and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the foreign fighters signing...
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Dreams Deferred, Hope on Hold
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Reporters' stories. Obstacles to President Obama's immigration reforms pile up -- it a...
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The Death of Gypsy Music
Sat 7 Mar 2015
The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the music which a...
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Please Don't Kill Our Sons
Thu 5 Mar 2015
Around the world with correspondents' stories. In this edition: executions in - the a...
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The Devil's Building Site
Sat 28 Feb 2015
Around the world in less than half an hour! Today: a four-day trek through the parts a...
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The Best Nightclub in Africa
Thu 26 Feb 2015
Story-telling from around the world. In this edition Charlotte Pritchard travels to in...
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The Athens Experiment
Sat 21 Feb 2015
The human lives behind the headlines: a view from the pistachio field after a tense of...
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Please Mick. Not boring ..
Thu 19 Feb 2015
The correspondent's trade: memories of the late Ian McDougall who filed for the BBC in...
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A Pig of a Sea
Sat 14 Feb 2015
More and more migrants are trying to cross the Mediterranean and there are suggestions...
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Tea and Cakes in Addis
Thu 12 Feb 2015
Questions and answers beyond the headlines. Little urgency apparent as the factions in...
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Jordan Retaliates
Sat 7 Feb 2015
The news behind the news. In this edition Paul Adams is in Jordan as the country takes...
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Into the Line of Fire
Thu 5 Feb 2015
Around the world in 28-minutes. Residents of eastern Ukraine fear the war raging them...
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Tomorrow You Will Be Heroes
Sat 31 Jan 2015
The human stories behind the headlines. Like any war, the one against Ebola is leaving...
