From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world
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Cuba's Collapsing Revolution
Saturday
As Cubans struggle with the US fuel blockade, the revolutionary spirit is under strain
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Iran's hijab protests
Sat 27 Dec 2025
A women's marathon race is the latest flash-point in ongoing protests over hijab laws.
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From Our Own Correspondent at 70
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Anna Foster and guests celebrate seventy years of ‘From Our Own Correspondent’.
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Southern Turkey: The Earthquake's Epicentre
Sat 11 Feb 2023
In Kahramanmaras, families continue the search for their relatives late into the night.
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A Bitter Winter in Afghanistan
Sat 28 Jan 2023
A trip to the world's highest road tunnel shows the perilous conditions in which many live
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A Year in Ukraine
Sat 31 Dec 2022
A selection of stories from correspondents who have covered the war since February.
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Ukraine's Battlefield Doctors
Sat 18 Jun 2022
How Ukrainian surgeons are learning to operate in the middle of a warzone.
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The price of dissent in Belarus
Sat 7 Aug 2021
Activists on trial in Minsk; plus tales from Nigeria, Australia, Singapore and Costa Rica
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Tunisia's Unfinished Business
Sat 31 Jul 2021
Power moves in Tunis; stories from Lebanon, Barbados, Kenya and the Tokyo Olympics.
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Key moments of 2020 reported by our correspondents
Sat 2 Jan 2021
Key moments of 2020 and thought provoking dispatches by our correspondents.
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Presidential Promises
Thu 31 May 2018
On the campaign trail in Mexico, plus Zimbabwe without Mugabe - what has changed?
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DRC - A Country On Hold?
Thu 25 Jan 2018
Waiting for elections and trying to answer awkward questions about sex in the DRC.
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Marching Orders
Sat 6 Jan 2018
From a clifftop village in China, a Ukrainian bunker and a former slave port in Tanzania.
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We Can't See an End to It
Thu 9 Nov 2017
Reports from writers and journalists around the world. Presented by Kate Adie.
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A Convicted Warlord, His Ex-Wife And A Footballer
Thu 12 Oct 2017
Election day was peaceful in Liberia, but are sinister forces at play?
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Life in India's Rohingya Refugee Camps
Thu 5 Oct 2017
Having fled violence in Myanmar 40,000 Rohingya live in India, but for how much longer?
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The Calm in Guam
Sat 19 Aug 2017
Despite the threat of North Korean missiles, we find a surprising calm in Guam.
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Fridge Magnets and Foreign Policy
Sat 29 Jul 2017
Afghanistan's new Top Guns, and America's dilemma over sending more troops to the region.
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Concrete Blocks and Opaque Glass
Thu 6 Jul 2017
Micro-flats, wildfires and scenes straight out of Charles Darwin's travel journals.
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Neither Love Nor Money
Sat 19 Nov 2016
Frontline biscuits, burning cash, a shocking demonstration, no love nor money, and sexism
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Linguistic confusion and mass killers
Thu 27 Oct 2016
Correspondents stories from Berlin, Paris, Ethiopia, the US and the South Atlantic.
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Bitter Harvests
Sat 8 Oct 2016
Kate Adie introduces reports from Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa, Italy and South Korea.
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Peeling Back the Layers
Thu 6 Oct 2016
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Russia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Morocco and Sweden.
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Barriers and Borders
Sat 24 Sep 2016
Kate Adie introduces reports on French deradicalisation, Syrian refugees and Switzerland.
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Memorable Despatches
Thu 17 Sep 2015
A chance to hear in full the despatches referred to in the 60th Anniversary Special.
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Europe's Migration Turmoil
Sat 5 Sep 2015
Europe's migration crisis from Prague and Vienna, and Azerbaijan locking up critics.
