From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide
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Sinai's Strategic Stresses
A special essay: Yolande Knell weighs up the prospects for the Sinai peninsula in 2014
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Africa's Flourishing Farms
Susie Emmett finds a bumper crop of ingenuity and innovation on the slopes of Mount Kenya
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Latin America: Leaders and legitimacy
Will Grant considers the political challenges ahead for leaders across the continent
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Europe's Roma Migrations
Nick Thorpe meets Roma families on the margins of Spanish society after leaving Romania
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Weekend Edition: Best of 2013
A special edition of some of FOOC's most memorable impressions, anecdotes and arguments
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India's Hunger
Why does malnutrition persist in India when there's no lack of food?
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Reporting Africa
Gabriel Gatehouse considers who should be telling the continent's stories - and how
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Christmas in Paris
The sights, smells, tastes - and joys - of the French capital at Christmas
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Germany and Greenland
New tunnels add to the Christmas cheer in Leipzig; and being stuck for days in Greenland
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Somalia and Greece
The lost spectacles that made it back from a Somalian battlefield, and hope for Greece
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Weekend Edition: Life on the Land
Stories of farmers and herders from Peru, the USA, Moldova, India, Mauritania and Austria
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Syria and Brazil
A Syrian man whose life illustrates the conflict; and slavery-type labour in Brazil.
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North America
Coping with doormen in New York and the Canadian policeman who smokes medical marijuana.
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United States and France
Nipple tattoos for cancer patients in the US, and the real reason French women stay slim
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Thailand and India
The real reasons behind Thailand's protests, and breaking the sex abuse silence in India
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China, North Korea, Burma
Life in the border city of Dandong on the China-North Korea border
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Heroes from all walks of life
In tribute to Nelson Mandela, we hear about all kinds of heroes from around the world.
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Tanzania and Ecuador
A poacher turned gamekeeper in the Serengeti, a former prison-radio DJ in Quito
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Syria and Burma
The real beliefs of the foreigners fighting Assad; Burmese daze on a train to Mandalay
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Syria, Jordan and Brazil
The gallows humour of wounded Syrians in Amman; trouble over dams and mines in the Amazon
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In Holy Footsteps
Sacred places and how to reach them, from Jerusalem to eastern Turkey
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China
Using South China Sea islands for peace, not war, and young Westerners working in China.
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Memories of Mandela
Hear from the BBC correspondents who witnessed how Nelson Mandela changed South Africa
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Nelson Mandela dies
Live coverage of events in South Africa and reaction from around the world
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Chicago and Sweden
Venturing into the sometimes dangerous South Side of Chicago and being Jewish in Sweden
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Mauritania and France
Why Saharan drought refugees fall for armed Islamists, and the new racism in France
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Ukraine and Latvia
Ukraine's Russia v EU dilemma and the wider impact of Latvia's supermarket collapse.
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Peru and the USA
Why coca still grows in Amazonian fields; how a storm ravaged South Dakota's livestock
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On the move
Correspondents report on journeys of all kinds, from migration to tourism.
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India: Elephants and Economics
A festival, a market and a spectacle, the Sonepur Mela is one of Asia's biggest fairs