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From Our Own Correspondent Episodes

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    Health and Safety, Taliban style

    Dicing with danger in Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Ethiopia-Eritrea border and Denmark

  2. Heroes and Villains

    Figureheads and rabble-rousers in the USA, Egypt, Spain's African enclaves and Indonesia

  3. Beneath the Surface

    Layers of meaning in stories from the Philippines, Greece, Pakistan and French Polynesia

  4. New Beginnings

    Lessons in love and patriotism, music and dancing and what's in a name?

  5. Bold Ambitions

    The footballer who would be Chancellor, friends of the dead and a phone that never rings.

  6. Same Old Enemies

    Myanmar's minority militias; Somalis face drought; May Day in Cuba; reporters off piste

  7. Not the Official Narrative

    Untold stories from North Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Sao Tome and Uzbekistan

  8. Image is Everything

    Revolutionary cool re-evaluated, rest and recuperation, and a president’s birthday bash.

  9. Seeds of Discontent

    Stories of struggle from the Philippines, Hungary, the Dominican Republic and Kenya

  10. Pick Your Battles

    Libya's power vacuum, a new life in Afghanistan, Ecuadorean chaos and Spanish bullfights

  11. Words and Pictures

    Syrians in Lebanon struggle; Egypt's Nubian culture; Mexican giants; language in Sudtirol

  12. Going underground

    Wit and insight from around the world, taking in China, France…and the New York Subway.

  13. Potent Plants and Deserted Dogs

    Wit and insight from around the world, Belize, South Korea and the Horn of Africa

  14. Places you’ve never been

    From green deserts to transgender beauty contests Indonesia style

  15. When Rot Sets In

    Turkey's fortune-tellers; IEDs in Iraq; South Sudan's famine; the weevils eating Portugal

  16. Those Days Are Gone

    Stories of curiosity, fear and resistance - from Yemen, the Gambia, Nigeria and Ukraine

  17. Tension, Trolling and a Troublesome Tocsin

    Taiwan/China diplomacy, Saudi Arabia's department of fun, trolling at the Vatican

  18. Love, Laughter and Literature

    Stories of rebels, jokers, lovers and conformists - from Syria, Nigeria, Russia and Japan

  19. Survivors

    Story of bravery in the face of risk from Afghanistan, Somalia, Albania and Nepal

  20. Departures

    Stories of lives transformed from Myanmar, The Gambia, the USA and Northern Cyprus

  21. Higher Powers

    Surviving IS in Iraq, a blasphemy row in Indonesia, Hong Kong's identity, Namibia's pride

  22. Counting the Costs

    Air in China, coal in Norwegian Svalbard, democracy in DR Congo and Cuba's year of shocks

  23. Keep On Keeping On

    Stories of sang-froid and endurance from Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, the USA and Uzbekistan

  24. Matters of Life and Death

    China's idealists; prejudice in Hungary; Gough Island birds; a British/Senegalese family

  25. Signs of the Times

    Tales of refugees in Somaliland, Uzbekistan polls, smalltown France and an Indian bakery

  26. Crisis Management

    Struggles for survival in South Sudan, at the UN, in Venezuela and Spain's Basque regions

  27. Local Heroes

    Stories of pride, identity and abandonment from India, the Gambia, the USA and Kosovo

  28. Runaway Expectations

    Stories of grit, wile - and sexism - from Nigeria, Nicaragua, Macedonia and South Korea

  29. Been In the Wars

    Tales from the assault on Mosul, Albania's drug fields, ruined Aleppo, resurgent Abidjan

  30. All About the Money

    Profit and loss for Italy's young, India's consumers, and a mutilator in Sierra Leone

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