Synopses & Reviews
1955, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programs. Every week correspondents from around the world report on stories behind the headlines. After the huge success of From Our Own Correspondent, this new companion volume brings more exhilarating dispatches to armchair travellers everywhere.
These dispatches take the reader to the four corners of the earth, from a Maoist wedding to the most dangerous road in the world. Follow the last hitch-hiker in northern France, discover the buffalo mounted police in Brazil, celebrate a home birth in Hungary and get absorbed by saffron in Kashmir. From the boy who lived in a tire to the British troops in Iraq, meet the real people behind the news on this breathtaking journey through the world we live in.
Some of Britain's most celebrated reporters get the opportunity to describe much more than would normally come into a news story: their stories offer a context and a unique insight into history as it unfolds. They have a unique perspective - sometimes transmitted live to the sound of gunfire - and offer an important background to world events.
Review
"Absorbing in its breadth, compassion and economy...tales of massacres and poverty, brutality and courage leave you drained - and awed..." -
Guardian"The sheer excellence of its reporting is unwavering."-Financial Times
"They are as captivating on the page as they are on air... the accounts are impressively up-to-date...absorbing." -The Observer
"These personal morsels, with no hint of condesension, hold more insight into cultures and histories than many textbooks. This absorbing read invites the reader to understand a little more about the world out there." -Real Travel
Synopsis
Since 1955,
From Our Own Correspondenthas been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programs. Every week correspondents from around the world report on stories behind the headlines. After the huge success of
From Our Own Correspondent, this new companion volume brings more exhilarating dispatches to armchair travelers everywhere.
Here, some of Britain's most celebrated reporters describe much more than would normally come into a news story; their stories offer a context and a unique insight into history as it unfolds. They have a unique perspective-sometimes transmitted live to the sound of gunfire-and offer an important background to the world.
Synopsis
"The sheer excellence of its reporting is unwavering."--Financial Times
Each week, the BBC's flagship programme From Our Own Correspondent reaches over 100 million people through the radio and internet. Collected here are 94 of its most notable dispatches: Misha Glenny tells a story of love and death set in Davos while John Simpson reports on the event which reminded him that human life is priceless. Also included is Alan Johnston's moving piece about his kidnap in Gaza.
Mark Tully returns to celebrate India's sixtieth birthday and Allan Little takes to the skies in the world's worst airlines. A president steps in when Damian Grammaticas is robbed in the Caucasus while Alastair Leithead joins a doctor from Sussex on a mission in distant Afghanistan.
Surprising, thought-provoking and often humorous, these pieces offer a unique chances to explore strange and remote corners of the world without leaving home.
Synopsis
Since 1955, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programs.
About the Author
Tony Grant joined the BBC after working in commercial radio and on newspapers in Merseyside. At the BBC he was at Radio 1's Newsbeat before becoming a foreign news editor and then, in 1992, the producer of From Our Own Correspondent. A keen cricketer, he is married to a political correspondent. They have two children.