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FOOC: BBC Radio 4 25 Jun 2009 Mike Wooldridge examines the causes and effects of Pakistan's army fighting in South Waziristan; Tim Esslemont meets the ebullient Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh; Nick Higham sees a building ban crack open in Patara, Turkey; Sima Kotecha goes on patrol with British troops in Afghanistan and Christine Finn walks the corridors of the once-notorious Beat Hotel in Paris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 20 June 2009 John Sweeney flies into the Swat Valley where the Pakistani military's been fighting Taleban militants; John Simpson's among the protestors on the streets of Tehran; Jamie Coomarasamy is in the Texas community where the grieving never seems to stop; Frank Partridge is in Athens where the call for the return of the Elgin Marbles is louder than ever and Kevin Connolly investigates the prickly cyber world of the internet hotel reviewer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 18 Jun 2009 Jon Leyne sees Tehran's streets in turmoil; Barbara Plett recalls her time riding the news rollercoaster in Pakistan; Dan Payne learns how Bulgaria's Turkish population survived its 'big excursion'; Claudia Hammond in Portugal finds drug decriminalisation has had unexpected effects and Jon Donnison looks at a plan to revive train travel in the USA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 13 June 2009 Andrew Harding tracks the pirates to their lair in the Horn of Africa; Lyse Doucet's in the Iranian city Isfahan finding out how long it takes to effect change; David Willey looks on as President Gaddafi has a date with a thousand Italian women and Emma Jane Kirby on how the French and the English don't always understand each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 11 Jun 2009 Jon Leyne finds Iran seething with election fever; Richard Galpin traces how Russia's power flows along its gas pipelines; Lucy Ash meets Thailand's campaigning coroner "Dr Death"; Hugh Schofield follows the Chinese tourist trail to a French provincial town and Barbara Plett decodes Pakistan's political lingo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 6 June 2009 One in ten Americans is now out of a job: Stephen Evans tells of a fading American Dream while Greg Wood tours decaying Detroit. Mohammed Hanif on how Pakistani opinions about the Taleban are changing; Ginny Hill sees young men in Saudi Arabia living dangerously in search of fun while Alex Kirby is made to feel unwelcome amid the juniper forests of Kyrgyzstan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 23 May 2009 Chris Morris reflects on the death of Tamil Tiger leader Vellupilai Prabhakaran; Rupert Wingfield Hayes sees Chechnya's capital Grozny on the mend; Jamie Coomarasamy finds Bernie Madoff's casualties in the worlds of charity and research; Jonny Dymond peers into Latvia's turbulent past and Kevin Connolly in Oklahoma on the legacy of local hero Will Rogers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 21 May 09 Damian Grammaticas on the aftermath of the Sri Lankan government's battle against the Tamil Tigers; Natalia Antelava visits Iraq's only mental hospital; Barbara Plett meets some of Pakistan's flood of refugees; Paul Martin remembers the day a desert changed hands and Hamilton Wende with the tale of an exploding electric fence in South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: Ian Pannell in Afghanistan, Adam Mynott on the Cholmondeley trial in Kenya, Will Grant in a diamond mine in Venezuela, Alexa Dvorson in Dakar and Kathy Flower from the thrify Pyrennes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 07 May 2009 Alastair Leithead on drugs trial in Laos; Stephen Gibbs on flu in Mexico City; Claudia Hammond on TB in South Africa; Tony Grant in Naples and Gabriel Gatehouse on art in Ukraine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: Flu in Mexico, British troops leave Iraq, the Eastern Congo and traffic chaos in Egypt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: Radio 4, 25 April 2009 Sri Lankan conflict: India votes: South African election: Anzac Day in Australia: palatial life in Rome Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 11 April 2009 Reports on the political turmoil in Moldova, mining towns in Australia and South Africa, the wilds of rural Afghanistan, a look back at almost two decades of change in Russia and from the watering holes of the USA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 04 April 2009 Jill McGivering's in the Pakistani city of Lahore as extremists launch a violent attack; Humphrey Hawksley on the controversial use of outside contractors by the US military; Simon Cox visits the Swiss organisation where many have come to end their own lives; Katya Adler discovers why the straight talking didn't last long at the Arab summit in Qatar and Petroc Trelawny finds echoes of a lost French empire by the seaside in Cambodia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 28 March 2009 Justin Webb in Washington on a new American foreign policy taking shape; Hugh Sykes reporting from Baghdad on how peace is taking root -- but at a cost; Claudia Hammond in South Africa finds that the burden of looking after those dying as a result of AIDS often falls on very young shoulders; Gabriel Gatehouse in Ukraine: a country often said to be torn between east and west and Christine Finn in Hawaii learns how to anger the volcano goddess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 21 Mar 2009 Mark Mardell sees the shadow of the 1930s hanging heavily over Europe's economic woes; Laura Trevelyan's in a Haiti threatened by another storm, this one economic; Jonah Fisher follows developments in Madagascar where a president's been forced to step down; Humphrey Hawksley's in Utah where forty thousand polygamists say the law needs changing and Simon Winchester is ordered not to set foot on the south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: Podcast R4 14th March 09 This week, Allan Little puts the decision by France to join NATO into an historical perspective; Tim Whewell shares a brandy with a Russian who once had his finger on the nuclear trigger; Mike Sergeant assesses the prospects for peace in Baghdad; Mike Wooldridge weighs up the advantages or otherwise of Chinese investment in Africa and Angus Crawford sniffs out a memory of the old German Democratic Republic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 12th March 2009 How Chinese workers are suffering in the global downturn. In Iraq, journalists and politicians slug it out as they learn to work together. The Pope apologises for living in less than splendid isolation and we decipher the cryptic writing on the wall in Paris Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 7 March 2009 Owen Bennett Jones in Khartoum with reaction to the news that an international arrest warrant's been issued for the Sudanese president; Mohammed Hanif on the dejection in Pakistan after the attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers; Jill McGivering's in the jungle of Mindanao chronicling the Philippines' forgotten conflict; Mary Harper on what's happened to 'the bumsters'of The Gambia; and you tip waiters and taxi drivers ... Kevin Connolly in the US wonders if the news correspondent deserves a g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: 5th March 2009 Mark Dummett examines a massacre in Bangladesh triggered by a dispute over pay; Richard Hollingham seaches for precious water in Israel's dry riverbeds; Neil Trevithick is in Timor as next month's Indonesian election appproaches; Daniel Schweimler bids a fond farewell to Argentina and Duncan Kennedy recalls a classic of modern cinema, by the fountains of Rome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 28 Feb 2009 John Sweeney in The Hague on the men convicted for their part in a massacre in Kosovo; Christina Corbett on the political struggle which has spilled over into violence in Madagascar; Tim Franks on the Jewish brothers who made their mark in the world of Arabic music; Emma Jane Kirby on why the French find their president so endlessly fascinating and Kevin Connolly on the rise and rise of the 'trillion'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 21 Feb 2009 Rupert Wingfield Hayes travels to Bishkek as the Americans are told to leave their air base in Kyrgyzstan; Chris Morris investigates how Indian police and intelligence are dealing with the threat from Islamist militants; Pascale Harter's in Kenya discovering there are still dangerous divisions after last year's inter-ethnic bloodshed; Nick Bryant's in the Australian outback finding out what's changed in the wake of the historic apology to the Aborigines from the country's prime minister; an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 19 Feb 2009 Jonathan Head reports on the trial of one of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious figures, Comrade Duch, in Cambodia; Nick Thorpe finds continued obstacles to normal life in Kosovo, a year after its independence; James Helm describes the impact of the recession on Limerick in Ireland; Elizabeth Blunt learns how two communities are adapting to each other in Gambella, Ethiopia; and Sarah Morris steps onto the soccer fields of Washington DC to learn why the USA is warming to the game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 14 Feb 2009 Andrew Harding in Harare on Zimbabwe's awkward political marriage; Lucy Ash in a Texas jail looking at a new prisoner rehabilitation scheme; Martin Plaut in central Africa where the Lord's Resistance Army continues its campaign of terror; Lyse Doucet is in Kabul twenty years after the Russian Red Army withdrew and Gregg Wood in New York on the trials and tribulations of the US tax system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 12 Feb 2009 John Simpson goes back to Iran, thirty years after he first reported on its Islamic Revolution; Nick Bryant sees the aftermath of Australia's devastating fires; Jeremy Bowen in Jerusalem on the negotiations which will follow the Israeli general election; Ray Furlong takes to the skies with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and John James enjoys a raucous meal with the cocoa growers of Ivory Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 7 Feb 2008 Rupert Wingfield Hayes on murder in the sreets of Moscow and what that says about the country's new elite; Tim Franks in Jerusalem on a lacklustre Israeli election campaign dominated by questions of security; Rupa Jha on the lifestyle of a man who unblocks the sewers in Delhi; Tom Esslemont examines the pressures felt by ethnic Georgians who live in Abkhazia and Tim Luard retraces the footsteps of a long march through China first undertaken in 1941. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 05 Feb 2009 Ian Pannell finds some reconstruction, but lingering fears, in Afghanistan; Stephanie Flanders on those who dared not show their faces at the World Economic Forum in Davos; Mike Lanchin reports from Albania on "sworn virgins" and blood feuds; William Reeve sees the conquering Afghan national cricket XI on the pitch; and Christine Finn discovers that surfing is still a source of national pride on the beaches of Hawaii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 31 Jan 2009 Chris Morris in Sri Lanka where the rebels are talking tough amid a major government offensive; Lorraine Mallinder on how Canadians are trying to come to terms with the legacy of the country's Residential Schools; Mark Mardell's joined striking farmers in Greece; Robert Pigott charts the march of Christianity across the Mongolian steppe; John Sweeney's in Liechtenstein asking awkward questions about tax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 29 Jan 2009 Katya Adler on Israeli public opinion after Gaza - asking whethere all the doves now dead; David Loyn sees how the UN tries to feed the world; Will Grant finds President Chavez still has a fervent following in home town in Venezuela; Luke Freeman stays in a corner of Congo far from the country's wars; and Chris Moore visits the Somme on a World War I pilgrimage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: WService 23 Jan 09 Quentin Somerville on the tainted baby-milk scandal which outraged China;Jonathan Beale in Guantanamo Bay, as President Obama decides to close the detention camp there; Natalia Antelava explores how children are affected by witnessing war; Nick Thorpe in Romania on the collapse of the scrap-metal market; and Hugh Schofield learns about "Globish", a stripped-down version of English for global business use. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4 22 Jan 09 Christian Fraser takes stock of the damage done in Gaza; Robin Lustig attends an emotional gathering in Alabama to mark President Obama's inauguration; we remember John Rettie, who broke the story of Kruschev's break with Stalin; Alex Last bids farewell to Nigeria; and Hugh Schofield tries to follow the new language of 'Globish' in France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: WService 16 Jan 09 Paul Martin on Zimbabwe's ruined health system; Justin Webb reflects on inequality and costs in US healthcare; Gabriel Gatehouse on Russia and Ukraine's propaganda war over gas; Martin Vennard on becoming a British citizen; and Kieran Cooke sees recession bite in a Western Ireland pub. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC:BBC Radio 4 15 Jan 09 Paul Martin on Zimbabwe's collapsing health system; Gabriel Gatehouse visits the Russia/Ukraine border; Kevin Connolly rates the Bush presidency; Tara Neil watches as a dead man is invited to rejoin his family in South Africa's Eastern Cape; and Kieran Cooke shelters from the recession in a bar in the West of Ireland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 10 Jan 2009 Meeting communities on both sides of the latest Middle East conflict, Paul Martin; Why the Kremlin talks tough in pipeline politics, James Rodgers; The Czechs who wonder if something's been left behind in the rush to capitalism, Chris Bowlby; Iraqi university students look to better times ahead, Caroline Wyatt. And how, in Japan, a cat, ferret or beetle can help you negotiate the difficult times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: 03 Jan 2009 Presented this week by Alan Johnston. Hugh Sykes on corruption and fear in Afghanistan; Paul Martin in Gaza meets the 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 one of Britain's remotest outposts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: 27th Dec 2008 The latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 27 Dec 2008 A special end of year edition with some of the stories told on this programme during the last 12 months including: taking to the skies with the next president of the United States, going shopping for a matrimonial bed in Egypt, off on a moonlight motorbike ride with some priests in Congo and, on a South Seas island, meeting the most harmonious and hospitable people on earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 20 Dec 2008 This week presented by Kate Adie. As the truce between Israel and Hamas comes to an end, Jeremy Bowen finds the gate to Gaza, for him at least, is open. Gabriel Gatehouse ventures down a coalmine in Ukraine - some people there believe the country should be more self-sufficient in energy, but its mines have a poor safety record. Stephen Evans, investigating the Cuban economy, meets the state official who looks after John Lennon's spectacles. Alan Johnston interviews Ingrid Betancourt, who su ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOOC: Radio 4 30 Oct 08 This week: Jim Muir in Baghdad explains why hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since the coalition invaded in 2003; in Washington DC Rajini Vaidyanathan considers the state of the US economy over a bowl of french fries in an historic diner; while much of the rest of the world faces recession Humphrey Hawksley discovers that there are jobs aplenty in Romania; Nick Nugent reveals why the people of the mountainous republic of Dagestan are missing out on the boom wh ... 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