It is a shame that the BBC doesn't give us a complete audio archive of its flagship From Our Own Correspondent programme, it being the essential listening that it is.
Presented by Alan Johnston, the 3rd of January edition included dispatches from Hugh Sykes on corruption and fear in Afghanistan; Paul Martin in Gaza meeting men from Hamas; Sue Lloyd Roberts on how oil brought greed to Nigeria; Emilio San Pedro on being a Cuban exile on the US mainland; and Nick Rankin in remote Britain. All this in under half an hour.
Alan Johnston presents the World Service broadcast version of this programme, with the domestic UK Radio 4 one being fronted by Kate Adie (why the difference?). I recently saw him interviewing Ingrid Betancourt on tv (seems the BBC have left this for us to revisit) and found it quite affecting. His own personal reflections on this interview from an earlier FOOC were equally so, if not more.
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