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From Our Own Correspondent

Field	Value
show_name	From Our Own Correspondent
format	Current affairs
runtime	23–30 minutes
country	United Kingdom
language	English
home_station	BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4
presenter	Kate Adie (BBC Radio 4)
Pascale Harter (BBC World Service)
producer	Andrea Protheroe
editor	Tony Grant
first_aired	1955
last_aired	Present
website

podcast

BBC Radio 4 Pascale Harter (BBC World Service)

From Our Own Correspondent is a weekly BBC radio programme in which BBC foreign correspondents deliver a sequence of short talks reflecting on current events and topical themes in the countries outside the UK in which they are based. The programme offers the BBC's correspondents around the world a chance to give a personal account of events from the epoch-making to the inconsequential.

From Our Own Correspondent is broadcast in two editions – one on the BBC World Service and one on BBC Radio 4 – and the programme was one of the first to be made available by the BBC as a podcast.

The programme was first commissioned in 1955. A book entitled From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme was published in 2005 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent. A related series, From Our Home Correspondent, was presented by Mishal Husain and focussed on stories by British domestic correspondents and was broadcast between 2016 and 2020.

Presenters

The programme was, for many years, presented by the Radio 4 and World Service announcers as part of their duties, but is now fronted by former BBC correspondents:

Current

Years	Presenter	Current role
1998–present	Kate Adie	BBC Radio 4 presenter
2012–present	Pascale Harter	BBC World Service presenter

Past

Alan Johnston - January 2008 - November 2011 (BBC World Service)

References

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/fooc50/4158970.stm ''Watching history unfold'': editor Tony Grant reflects on five decades of news]
(2005). "From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme". Profile Books.
"From Our Home Correspondent".

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