From Our Own Correspondent

By BBC Radio 4

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.

... more

4.6

344344 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about From Our Own Correspondent:

How many episodes does From Our Own Correspondent have?

The podcast currently has 1,196 episodes available.

From Our Own Correspondent episodes:

May 12, 2012 Syrian Ghosts
Many Syrian doctors and medical staff have fled the country as the violence there continues. Portia Walker's been talking to one of them in Turkey.
The Arab Spring has failed to take root in Algeria. This week there were elections there and Chloe Arnold's been reflecting on the public reluctance to take part in a vote about the country's future.
Hugh Sykes has been listening to opposing views about the state Pakistan's in. Some talk of its political stability; others of how it's ripe for revolution. Everyone, though, has a view about corruption there.
A UN envoy, in Cambodia this week, spoke of how firearms were increasingly being used there against human rights activists. Guy Delauney considers this in the light of growing public controversy over land issues and illegal logging.
And as the nude bathing season gets underway in Germany Stephen Evans tells a story of how cultural confusion over nakedness caused embarrassment in a Berlin gym.
...more
28min
May 05, 2012 Sunlounger economics
In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them all.
Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer.
Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people.
Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders
And Alan Johnston, touring the celebrated sights of Rome, tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.
...more
29min
April 28, 2012 Congo warlord
The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields full of opium poppies and the Taliban are everywhere. Quentin Sommerville talks of the mood among the troops as they prepare at last to return home.
After Charles Taylor, who'll next be taken to court to face charges relating to war crimes? Fiona Lloyd Davies has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo meeting one former rebel commander who is wanted for trial.
Ian Pannell has been talking to an English scholar in Syria whose library was destroyed as the struggle continues between protestors and the security forces.
What makes Kenyan athletes such fine distance runners? Claudia Hammond's been jogging through the Great Rift Valley learning some of the answers.
and Stephen Sackur went to Cairo to report on how the people's uprising there was faring but instead found himself captivated by a revolutionary TV chef whose recipes are being lapped up throughout the Middle East!
...more
29min
April 21, 2012 Asparagus fever!
Bahrain: Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines why all sides in the bitter conflict there feel the controversy surrounding this weekend's Grand Prix can work in their favour.
France: It's an election which lacks a feel-good factor. Perhaps, Chris Morris feels, that's why all the campaigners are looking back, at a vision of a romantic, glorious French past.
Kenya: Mary Harper's in a huge refugee camp, run on international money, and contrasts life there with that in an impoverished village not far away.
India: His mother warned him against walking on ice, but Paul Howard finds it's the only way to visit a remote community high in the Himalayas.
Germany: Great excitement at the start of the white asparagus season. Steve Evans finds the vegetable dominating menus and conversation. But surely it's not an aphrodisiac?
...more
28min
April 14, 2012 14 April 2012
Fergal Keane is on Turkey's border with Syria listening to the experiences of those seeking refuge from the violence.
The rise - and fall - of Italy's House of Bossi. David Willey reports.
Natalia Antelava uncovers what appears to be a secret programme to sterilize women in Uzbekistan.
Justin Marozzi finds street life returning to the Somali capital Mogadishu, once the most dangerous city on earth.
And Jon Donnison hears the Olympic dreams of one Libyan athlete.
...more
28min
April 07, 2012 Sarajevo
Presenter Kate Adie's in Sarajevo along with Allan Little and Jeremy Bowen. All three of them correspondents who reported from the Bosnian war 20 years ago.
Also today Owen Bennett Jones on a controversial group of Iranian exiles whose camp in Iraq is about to be closed down.
Pascale Harter's in Iceland talking of life in a town which remains in the shade from October to February.
While Simon Worrall goes to northern France with questions about what exactly happened in a battle more than seventy years ago.
...more
29min
March 31, 2012 Libyan pets
What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's transition from dictatorship to democracy? Kevin Connolly's been finding out.
Refineries. Miles and miles of pipeline. Hundreds of workers from overseas. Antonia Quirke's learned they are all coming to a remote corner of Mozambique now there's been a huge gas find there.
Drug-related violence is a major issue in the Mexican presidential election campaign, which has just got underway. Will Grant's in the capital city where even news of the most gruesome happenings now seems to cause little surprise or horror.
Jonathan Fryer's been meeting a family hugely respected in Togo. Over the generations they've become known for producing twins -- regarded as particularly special in this part of west Africa.
And how on earth did a man from the high Himalayas come to be serving Jewish culinary specialities in a store in Manhattan? The answer to that one comes from Reggie Nadelson.
...more
28min
March 24, 2012 Afghan New Year
Afghans enjoy New Year celebrations but Lyse Doucet finds they are concerned about what the months ahead may bring
John James travels to the west African state of Guinea-Bissau and finds unexpected charms amidst its shadows
The Burmese are finding out that recent reforms in their country have encouraged tourists to return. Caroline Hawley has been seeing what it has to offer the international visitor
The Egyptians are preparing to vote for a new president and Jon Leyne has been finding out there are hundreds of people who feel they should have the job
Gavin Esler meets Chancellor Merkel in Berlin and considers to what extent Germans feel obliged to help the poorer nations of southern Europe
...more
28min
March 22, 2012 Boybandmania
One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US.
Arrest warrant issued for a former premier of the troubled Turks and Caicos Islands.

Cambodian Americans deported from the US.

Why the Eurovision Song Contest reminds one woman in Azerbaijan of losing her home.

And the Brazilian port--- 900 miles from the sea.
...more
28min
March 17, 2012 the Kony film
A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an audience in Uganda.
A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined them.
'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.
Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how French children are being educated to become the film experts of the future.
And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally burst.
...more
29min

FAQs about From Our Own Correspondent:

How many episodes does From Our Own Correspondent have?

The podcast currently has 1,196 episodes available.

More shows like From Our Own Correspondent

Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,598 Listeners

Business Daily by BBC World Service

Business Daily

526 Listeners

More or Less by BBC Radio 4

More or Less

892 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,050 Listeners

World Business Report by BBC World Service

World Business Report

294 Listeners

In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,453 Listeners

The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service

The Documentary Podcast

1,797 Listeners

Witness History by BBC World Service

Witness History

958 Listeners

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 by BBC Radio 4

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

2,116 Listeners

Great Lives by BBC Radio 4

Great Lives

479 Listeners

Profile

106 Listeners

Last Word by BBC Radio 4

Last Word

44 Listeners

File on 4 Investigates by BBC Radio 4

File on 4 Investigates

40 Listeners

The Inquiry by BBC World Service

The Inquiry

743 Listeners

The Life Scientific by BBC Radio 4

The Life Scientific

235 Listeners

The Audio Long Read by The Guardian

The Audio Long Read

847 Listeners

Start the Week by BBC Radio 4

Start the Week

161 Listeners

The Briefing Room by BBC Radio 4

The Briefing Room

80 Listeners

Evil Genius with Russell Kane by BBC Sounds

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

363 Listeners

Have You Heard George's Podcast? by BBC Sounds

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

232 Listeners

Elis James and John Robins by BBC Radio 5 Live

Elis James and John Robins

326 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

3,189 Listeners

Americast by BBC News

Americast

715 Listeners

Sport's Strangest Crimes by BBC Radio 5 Live

Sport's Strangest Crimes

68 Listeners

Uncanny by BBC Radio 4

Uncanny

829 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics

2,885 Listeners

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley by BBC Radio 4

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

516 Listeners

Believe in Magic by BBC Sounds

Believe in Magic

623 Listeners

The Global Story by BBC World Service

The Global Story

336 Listeners

Miss Me? by BBC Sounds

Miss Me?

257 Listeners

The History Podcast by BBC Radio 4

The History Podcast

65 Listeners

Rory Stewart: The Long History of... by BBC Radio 4

Rory Stewart: The Long History of...

77 Listeners

Havana Helmet Club by BBC Sounds

Havana Helmet Club

2 Listeners