From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme - Hardcover

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9781861977199: From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861977190 ISBN 13: 9781861977199

Publisher: Profile Books, 2005

For almost 50 years, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programmes. Every week correspondents from around the world report on the stories behind the headlines. There are few countries and subjects which have not featured on the programme. It covers places as diverse as the Faroes, Moldova, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and Sao Tome and Principe, one of Africa's smallest countries. Much of the correspondents' work is little more than writing to television pictures or covering the day's events in one report of perhaps only a minute's duration. From Our Own Correspondent gives some of Britain's most celebrated reporters the opportunity to describe much more: context, relevant history, characters encountered en route, a description of a foreign country or capital. The correspondents relay the unexpected: a 40-course Chinese banquet, swimming with sharks, a zero gravity on a flight with Russian cosmonauts, mud wrestling in Turkey or ballroom dancing in Cameroon. They offer a unique perspective - sometimes live to the sound of gunfire - to the background important world events as they happen. The book is introduced by Kate Adie.

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Review:

Shows the wonderfully diverse range of styles and subjects. (Metro London)

...the best dispatches and there is a great mix, ranging from hard-hitting to quirky personal stories. (Belfast Telegraph)

You don't lose the detail in FOOC: it luxuriates in full, florid complexity. (Guardian)

You must read From Our Own Correspondent: 50 years of dispatches from the Radio 4 programme, displaying its depth, variety and brilliance (Sunday Times)

From the Back Cover:

From Our Own Correspondent remains one of the most popular BBC radio programmes almost forty years after it first came out. Broadcast twice weekly on Radio 4 and internationally by the World Service, the programme draws on the talents of BBC correspondents around the world to bring to listeners reflections on major world events as well as more personal tales. Powerful eye-witness accounts of the stories that made the news over the past year, moving impressions of everyday life, and some highly comic moments: all are to be found in the fifth edition of The Best of From Our Own Correspondent. Included are: Fergal Keane on the elections in South Africa; Andy Kershaw on the tragedy of Rwanda; Martin Bell on the last days of Kim Il Sung; Gavin Esler on the trials and tribulations of Bill Clinton's presidency; Allan Little on the human suffering behind the war in Bosnia; Misha Glenny on Ukraine's nuclear arsenal; Kevin Connolly on Russia's latest revolution; Alex Brodie on the changing face of the Middle East; Brian Barron on the final days of Hong Kong under British rule; Martin Dowle on Brazil's World Cup team, and many more.

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