All aboard! As EU ministers plan the timetable ahead, we take a train journey to the heart of Europe. 'Nyiregyhaza is as rich in tombs, as in apples' -- eastern Hungary remembers its countryfolk deported to the Soviet Union. As Remembrance Day approaches, a young fusilier is baptised in the Helmand River. Our correspondent tries to discover how a friend come to be killed in the Nairobi slum of Kibera and a horoor story from our hypochondriac reporter in LA, as he tries to negotiate the US h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 5 Oct 2009In this programme, we ask what it means to be French. Plus the story of an ordinary Afghan murdered by the Taliban; suicide bombers choking the cultural life of Pakistan; swimming in the contradictions of Indian society; and why the power is out in oil-rich Chad.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 31 Oct 2009Trick or treat? Gary Younge on what Halloween reveals about modern America; Lyse Doucet has a tale of two gardens as Dr Abdullah is reported on the verge of pulling out of the Afghan election; there's an account of fear and anti-aircraft guns in Guinea from Mark Doyle; William Horsley on the east Germans who think some aspects of life were better before the Wall came down and, in a Moscow skyscraper, tales of wartime courage from one of the Soviet Union's woman fighter pilots.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FOOC: Radio 4 30 Oct 08This 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website