From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide
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Optimism and betrayal in Ukraine
Sarah Rainsford in Ukraine. Plus stories from the Winter Olympics, Kenya and Italy.
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Myanmar: One year under military rule
Protest and resistance in Myanmar; plus stories from Cyprus, Afghanistan and Australia.
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Hunger in Helmand
New hurdles for Afghan farmers returning home; plus tales from Senegal, Turkey and Japan
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Searching for Mexico's drug-war 'disappeared'
Hunting for traces of missing relatives; plus tales from Kazakhstan, Somalia and Germany
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Football, power and conflict in Cameroon
A bitter insurgency is backdrop to AFCON 2022; tales from Montenegro, Ukraine and Brazil
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China's online army of commenters
The backlash to any 'insult to China' online; plus stories from Peru, Sudan and Denmark
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Resilience, recovery and rebuilding
Stories of hope from Gaza, Fiji, California and human evolution
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The moments which made us think
Some of the most thought-provoking dispatches heard from around the world in 2021
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Turkey's spiralling prices
Inflation pinches Turkish pockets; tales from Colombia, Denmark and a reporter's hoard
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Madagascar: the threat of starvation
The roots of a famine now menacing Madagascar; stories from Honduras, Poland and Ireland
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The rhetorical tug-of-war over Ethiopia
Harder (and hotter) words are traded over Tigray; tales from Venezuela, Vienna and Seoul
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The son also rises
Stories from the Philippines, Chile, a Greek island and years of global climate talks
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Libya's anxiously-awaited elections
Stories from Libya's streets, Bosnian cities, Turkey's borders and Brazilian snack bars
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Tea with the Taliban next door
Stories from Afghanistan, Ethiopian battlefronts, Nicaragua's election and German forests
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New life amid the ashes in Greece
The aftermath of 2021 fires; tales of global journalism, Iowan opinion and Nigerian rites
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The endless search for Colombia's missing people
Stories from Colombia, South Africa, a giant insect farm in France and Italian wardrobes
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Nostalgia for the Gaddafi era?
A few Libyans now miss the late "Brother Leader"; tales from Denmark, Pakistan and Chile
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Japan's Grey Politics
Why does the new Japanese PM seem so familiar? Plus tales from Iraq, Australia and Kenya
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Starting again: The lives of refugees in their new home
What is it like to leave everything behind and begin life afresh?
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Flight MH17: Victims’ families share their stories
On trial but absent: The men accused of shooting down Flight MH17
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The human cost of prescription drug abuse
Half a million US dead from prescription opioids, but one supplier escapes prosecution
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A new life in Iraq
Iranians fleeing Iran search for a new life in Iraq, plus stories from Canada and Hungary
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Farewell to Germany’s ‘Mutti’
Farewell to ‘Mutti’, Germany’s Angela Merkel, plus stories from Brazil and Afghanistan
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Hunting for food, water and medicine, as Lebanon runs out
Our Beirut correspondent flies abroad in search of life-saving medicines
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Western military intervention after Afghanistan: When can it work?
Our correspondent on when military interventions have succeeded, and failed, in Africa
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Afghanistan: How did we get here?
With the Taliban back in charge, our correspondent searches his memory for clues
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On the frontline in Afghanistan, as one city after another falls to the Taliban
With soldiers in Kandahar as Taliban forces attack the city.
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Kidnappings, ethnic conflict, and Islamist insurgency: Nigeria’s violent problems
Can Nigeria be governed, with so many different sources of conflict across the country?
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Rebuilding Beirut one year after the blast: Renovation or more destruction?
The Beirut neighbourhood trying to retain its history as the city tries to rebuild
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Counting the cost: the homes and livelihoods destroyed in South Africa’s riots
A writer in Cape Town calls family and friends to hear who lost what in the recent riots