From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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The Lost Orchards
Thu 14 Nov 2013
Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen on the talks, restarting in Geneva next week,...
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Fraying at the Edges
Sat 9 Nov 2013
Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished business in the Middle to...
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The Midnight Bus to Damascus
Thu 7 Nov 2013
Reporters worldwide: while refugees continue to stream out of Syria in their there are...
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Cities on Edge
Sat 2 Nov 2013
Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of...
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A Night Out in Greenland
Thu 31 Oct 2013
Correspondents' stories: once the cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia's now battling an...
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The Ruin of Rome
Sat 26 Oct 2013
The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of Rome - Joanna Robertson of a...
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Don't Mention the War!
Thu 24 Oct 2013
As one of the last heroes of the Vietnam War is laid to rest, Rajan Datar hears young...
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The Migrants Who Made it
Sat 19 Oct 2013
The Via Roma in the Italian island of Lampedusa -- Alan Johnston says that for the who...
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Songs of Love and Loss
Thu 17 Oct 2013
The traditional sad songs of Portugal have become sadder still as the government in --...
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Breaking the Rules
Sat 12 Oct 2013
Correspondents' stories: the Champs d'Elysees is an icon of Paris, a majestic piece of...
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Iceland's Book Boom
Thu 10 Oct 2013
Looking behind the news. In this programme: David Loyn examines the claim that NATO in...
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A Giant Snake Comes to Town
Sat 5 Oct 2013
Colour and analysis from around the world: Kevin Connolly says as much as a quarter of...
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Sibelius, Saunas and Salmiakki
Thu 3 Oct 2013
Correspondents with colour and analysis from around the world: Theopi Skarlatos in on...
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The President's Golden Scissors
Sat 28 Sep 2013
Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - so...
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The Love Hunters
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Global despatches. Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the a...
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The Dry Bones of a Thousand Empires
Sat 21 Sep 2013
Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen in Damascus reflects on the lessons a learns...
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Unanswered Questions
Sat 14 Sep 2013
Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world. Following the death...
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A Shattered Mosaic
Sat 7 Sep 2013
Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa...
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A Banquet of Unpalatable Choices
Sat 31 Aug 2013
Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in Washington on difficult decisions a...
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You Can't Kill an Idea
Sat 24 Aug 2013
Correspondents' despatches: the wealthy principality of Liechtenstein is forced to up...
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Seventy-Two Snipers
Sat 17 Aug 2013
Correspondents' stories. Today: Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where the mood, at the end of a...
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Prepared to Die
Sat 10 Aug 2013
Will the Egyptian army move in to break up the camp in Cairo set up by supporters of a...
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the Himalayan Tsunami
Sat 3 Aug 2013
Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told they could face further a...
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The Albanian Riviera
Sat 27 Jul 2013
Albania, not so long ago a redoubt of hardline Communism, is now hoping for EU membership.
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Mrs Wong and Mrs Lim Go Shopping
Sat 20 Jul 2013
"He knew nothing about politics. " A father talks to Humphrey Hawksley about his only a...
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A Million Smartphones
Thu 18 Jul 2013
The Bulgarian establishment under threat from a million smartphones - Nick Thorpe on...
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Return to Rangoon
Sat 13 Jul 2013
Quentin Sommerville talks to protestors on Cairo's streets; Andrew Harding returns to...
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Saints and Sinners
Thu 11 Jul 2013
The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the myth...
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You Can't Hug on Facebook
Sat 6 Jul 2013
Portuguese people are leaving the country in their thousands, travelling to the former...
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A House in Damascus
Thu 4 Jul 2013
What's happened to her house in the Old City in Damascus? Diana Darke hears how it's...
