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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

  • 1,251 episodes
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  • Oct 29, 2011 · 28 min

    Oct 29, 2011

    The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia indicates, according to Fergal for...

  • Oct 27, 2011 · 27 min

    Oct 27, 2011

    A dystopian vision of Venice - Rachel Harvey's words as she watches the flood waters...

  • Oct 22, 2011 · 28 min

    22 Oct 2011

    Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel was...

  • Oct 20, 2011 · 28 min

    20 Oct 2011

    Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world. Today Jonathan Head ask what keeps...

  • Oct 15, 2011 · 28 min

    15 Oct 2011

    Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights...

  • Oct 13, 2011 · 28 min

    13 Oct, 2011

    'I'll Not Do It Again!' That's the verdict of some foreign businessmen, out of pocket...

  • Oct 8, 2011 · 28 min

    08 Oct 2011

    Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious reminders Lyse Doucet has...

  • Oct 6, 2011 · 27 min

    Oct 6, 2011

    A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little.

  • Oct 1, 2011 · 28 min

    Oct 1, 2011

    An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway.

  • Sep 29, 2011 · 28 min

    29 Sept, 2011

    They came from all over: serious men from Seville and Madrid with their fine suits and...

  • Sep 24, 2011 · 28 min

    24 September 2011

    Kate Adie shares stories behind the headlines with correspondents around the world....

  • Sep 22, 2011 · 27 min

    22 Sept 11

    Katie Adie presents more despatches from foreign correspondents. As forces try to oust...

  • Sep 17, 2011 · 28 min

    Sept 17, 2011

    Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final -- a...

  • Sep 15, 2011 · 27 min

    Sept 15, 2011

    How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with of air...

  • Sep 10, 2011 · 28 min

    Sept 10, 2011

    Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi...

  • Sep 3, 2011 · 28 min

    Sept 3, 2011

    The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was out shopping -- and tells a...

  • Aug 27, 2011 · 28 min

    July 27, 2011

    The Arab-Israeli conflict seems to have been sidelined in this year of revolutions.

  • Aug 20, 2011 · 28 min

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    'Politics at its most brutal, its most basic, democracy as a demolition derby.

  • Aug 13, 2011 · 27 min

    BBC Radio 4

    Aleem Maqbool reports on Karachi, where inter-ethnic violence between Urdu speakers in...

  • Aug 6, 2011 · 28 min

    BBC Radio 4 August 6th 2011

    Mexico's drug wars are notoriously violent and the killings have spread to Guatemala...