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From Our Own Correspondent

BBC Radio 4

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world

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  • Apr 7, 2012 · 28 min

    Sarajevo

    Presenter Kate Adie's in Sarajevo along with Allan Little and Jeremy Bowen.

  • Mar 31, 2012 · 27 min

    Libyan pets

    What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's transition from to Kevin...

  • Mar 24, 2012 · 27 min

    Afghan New Year

    Afghans enjoy New Year celebrations but Lyse Doucet finds they are concerned about the...

  • Mar 22, 2012 · 27 min

    Boybandmania

    One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US. Arrest warrant issued a...

  • Mar 17, 2012 · 28 min

    the Kony film

    A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding...

  • Mar 15, 2012 · 28 min

    Benin Voodoo

    A voodoo priest visits in Benin; disappearances in Sri Lanka; a truce in Gaza and from...

  • Mar 10, 2012 · 28 min

    March 10, 2012

    The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - Julian May hears his story as...

  • Mar 8, 2012 · 28 min

    March 08, 2012

    The extraordinarily spry 80-year-olds of Shikoku: Peter Day's met them and tells us as...

  • Mar 3, 2012 · 28 min

    March 3, 2012

    'A revolution with almost no co-ordination or planning. ' That was Ian Pannell's as he...

  • Feb 25, 2012 · 28 min

    25 Feb, 2012

    Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how impressed have they been...

  • Feb 23, 2012 · 28 min

    23 Feb 12

    Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not? It's a by in...

  • Feb 18, 2012 · 28 min

    18 Feb 2012

    Guns remain the ultimate arbiter of disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya. And in Benghazi is...

  • Feb 16, 2012 · 28 min

    16 Feb 2012

    No need for expensive cab fares this time! The regime change in The Maldives proves a...

  • Feb 11, 2012 · 28 min

    Feb 11, 2012

    That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension and...

  • Feb 9, 2012 · 28 min

    9 Feb, 2012

    From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government in...

  • Feb 4, 2012 · 28 min

    Feb 4, 2012

    After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and...

  • Feb 2, 2012 · 28 min

    2 Feb, 2012

    A rich seam of frustration - over poverty, bad leadership and corruption -- is being...

  • Jan 28, 2012 · 28 min

    28 Jan, 2012

    From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris.

  • Jan 26, 2012 · 27 min

    26 Jan 2012

    Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall...