From Our Own Correspondent
- From Our Own Correspondent
Infobox Radio Show
show_name = From our own Correspondent
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caption = The image used by the BBC iPlayer to identify the World Service edition of the programme.
other_names = FOOC
format = Current affairs
runtime = 30 minutes
country = flag|United Kingdom
language = English
home_station = BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4
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presenter = Alan Johnston (World Service)
Kate Adie (Radio 4)
"et al"
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producer = Andrea Protheroe
editor = Tony Grant
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first_aired = 1955
last_aired = Present
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website = [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w0000cgj BBC Radio]
podcast = [http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/fromourowncorrespondent/rss.xml BBC podcast]
From Our Own Correspondent (also known as "FOOC" [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/fooc50/4158970.stm "Watching history unfold": editor Tony Grant reflects on five decades of news] ] ) is a BBC radio programme in which BBC correspondents broadcast monologues on topical current events from countries outside the UK. The programme offers the BBC's correspondents around the world a chance to give a personal account of events from the epoch-making to the inconsequential.
FOOC is broadcast on the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, and was one of the first programmes to be made available by the BBC as a podcast.
The programme was, for many years, presented by the Radio 4 and World Service announcers as part of their duties, but is now fronted by former BBC correspondents. Kate Adie presents for Radio 4; Alan Johnston for the BBC World Service.
The programme was first commissioned in 1955. A book entitled "From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme" [cite book |title=From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme |last=Grant |first=Tony (ed.) |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Books |location= |isbn=1861977190 ] was published in 2005 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent.
References
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/default.stm From Our Own Correspondent website]
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