From Our Own Correspondent - a celebration of fifty years of the BBC Radio Programme

by Tony Grant (Author)

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  2005

  $3.25

  The flagship Radio 4 programme From Our Own Correspondent gives Britain's most celebrated reporters the chance to describe much more than they can in a normal report: context, history and characters encountered en route. And for the fiftieth anniversary of the programme Profile collected together the programme's best pieces. From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programmes for fifty years. And this book, containing dispatches from all around the world, shows why FOOC , as it is affectionately known, has become such a well-known and much-loved institution. It contains not only the observations of journalists covering the big news events of the day, but also their personal insights into how people around the world live their lives. There are dispatches from Misha Glenny in Russia, Mark Tully in India, Charles Wheeler in the USA, Jeremy Vine in the Congo, Ben Brown in Zimbabwe and Orla Guerin in the West Bank. All offer a unique perspective describing the background to events around the world as they happen.

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  2005

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  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.