From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

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Synopsis

For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It has taken listeners to parts of the world where they have never gone, and perhaps never would: war zones, refugee camps, elite universities, space stations, spy academies and lions' dens of all sorts. Its dispatches introduce audiences to people they might never expect to meet - kingpins, revolutionaries, assassins and outcasts. It has always relied on the power of personal testimony, with its contributors not merely reporting the news, but sharing what they found out along the way, and how it felt. Its correspondents often relate the unexpected: the day they visited the town that is crazy about trout fishing, attended a forty-course Chinese banquet, experienced zero gravity on a flight with Russian cosmonauts, went mud wrestling in Turkey or ballroom dancing in Cameroon.

Themed by continent and region, From Our Own Correspondent brings together the most compelling stories of the past ten years. It is a perfect primer for the understanding of the modern world.

Copyright:
2020

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Book Size:
400 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781474607674
Related ISBNs:
9781474612012
Publisher:
Orion
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Technology, Language Arts, Communication, Politics and Government
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