Synopses & Reviews
"From Our Own Correspondent" is one of the most popular programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. This fifth compilation is a round-up of the events of 1993, as observed in radio despatches from around the world by BBC correspondents. It ranges from powerful eye-witness accounts of the events that made the news, to some moving and very personal human interest stories, and at times, in the midst of even the most desperate situations, unexpectedly comic moments. The stories behind the South African elections, the genocide in Rwanda, the Arab-Israeli Peace Accords and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico are all featured.
Synopsis
From Our Own Correspondent remains one of the most popular BBC radio programmes almost forty years after it first came out. Broadcast twice weekly on Radio 4 and internationally by the World Service, the programme draws on the talents of BBC correspondents from around the world to bring to listeners reflections on major world events as well as more personal tales. Powerful eyewitness accounts of the stories that made the news over the past year, moving impressions of everyday life, and highly comic moments - some issuing from even the most desperate situations: all are to be found in the fourth edition of The Best of From Our Own Correspondent. Included here are: Martin Bell, Allan Little and Misha Glenny on the war in the former Yugoslavia, Mark Tully on India, Tim Llewellyn on the Middle East, Fergal Keane on South Africa, Kevin Connolly and Bridget Kendall on the former Soviet Union, Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Latin America, Gavin Esler on the USA, Andy Kershaw on motorbike racing in the Isle of Man... and much more besides.
About the Author
Tony Grant is the Producer of
From Our Own Correspondent.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Africa.
Part 2 Western and Eastern Europe.
Part 3 The Middle East.
Part 4 Asia and the Pacific.
Part 5 The Americas.