From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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A Cosy Dinner in Leipzig
Thu 29 Jan 2015
What are they talking about? In Germany there's emotional debate about Pegida; Libyans...
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The Revolt Against Austerity
Sat 24 Jan 2015
'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually cropped up in the Greek election...
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The Knot Comes to the Comb
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Correspondents' stories: in this edition Maria Margaronis on the keenly-awaited Greek...
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Poached Pangolin
Sat 17 Jan 2015
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa in...
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Charlie Hebdo
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Looking beyond the headlines: correspondents with insight and analysis consider: Hebdo...
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Everything to Play For
Sat 3 Jan 2015
Insight, colour, analysis: in this edition, the once impregnable Rajapaksa camp is as...
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Dec 27,2014: I Hate New York!
Sat 27 Dec 2014
Seasonal stories and festive fables: Mike Wendling strongly disagrees with the thought...
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The Heaviest Coffin
Sat 20 Dec 2014
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa on...
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A New Empire
Sat 13 Dec 2014
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. 'For God, Tsar and Nation'.
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Dec 06: Spies are Everywhere
Sat 6 Dec 2014
Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie travels to China's most -...
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The Buckwheat Barometer
Sat 29 Nov 2014
Despatches. Steve Rosenberg sets out to discover who the Russian public holds for and...
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Swimming in Iran
Sat 22 Nov 2014
Foreign correspondents. Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers in Ukraine who want the of...
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The Missing Students
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Despatches from around the world. In this edition: Will Grant on the protests in City...
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Jerusalem On Edge
Sat 8 Nov 2014
Foreign correspondents. Today, Kevin Connolly on tension in Jerusalem:- a reminder, he...
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Talking to Ghosts
Thu 6 Nov 2014
Reporters. Today, from Sierra Leone: why covering the Ebola outbreak is an assignment...
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The Ghosts of old Naples
Sat 1 Nov 2014
Reporters. Today: Alan Johnston on the richness of the past lying in the bones of the...
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The Most Dangerous Job in th World?
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Correspondents'despatches: Gabriel Gatehouse with the medical team who have collected...
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The Flying River
Sat 25 Oct 2014
Reporters around the world. Misha Glenny says surely it's a national emergency -- but...
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Home Grown Heroes
Thu 23 Oct 2014
War may still be raging in the east, but Ukraine's gearing up for elections -- and are...
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Spectres of Afghanistan
Sat 18 Oct 2014
The past looms large over Afghanistan's new leader -- Fergal Keane says the scale of a...
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Rio Rubbish
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Macchiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio...
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The Battle for Hong Kong
Sat 11 Oct 2014
'Caught between the demands of the masses and the stern imperatives of Beijing's Keane...
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A Tap You Can't Turn Off
Thu 9 Oct 2014
The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made...
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Three Questions for Mr Leung
Sat 4 Oct 2014
The questions arising from a week of protest in Hong Kong are asked by the BBC's China...
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A New Egypt
Thu 2 Oct 2014
Global despatches: some are pleased at what President al-Sisi's achieved in his first...
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Fractured Syllogisms
Sat 27 Sep 2014
Despatches from around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying...
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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...
