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

by Tony Grant

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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 show more whyFOOC, 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. show less

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Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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327Social sciencesPolitical scienceInternational Relations
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D860 .G74History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)Post-war history (1945- )
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