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

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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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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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Tony Grant joined the BBC after working in commercial radio and on newspapers in Merseyside. At the BBC he was at Radio 1's Newsbeat before becoming a foreign news editor and then, in 1992, the producer of From Our Own Correspondent. A keen cricketer, he is married to a political correspondent. They have two children.

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