''From Our Own Correspondent'' is a weekly BBC

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in which BBC foreign

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s deliver a sequence of short talks reflecting on current events and topical themes in the countries outside the UK in which they are based. 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. ''From Our Own Correspondent'' is broadcast in two editions – one on the

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and one on

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– and the programme was one of the first to be made available by the BBC as a

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. The programme was first commissioned in 1955. A book entitled ''From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme'' was published in 2005 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent. A related series, ''From Our Home Correspondent'', was presented by

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and focussed on stories by British domestic correspondents and was broadcast between 2016 and 2020.

Presenters

The programme was, for many years, presented by the Radio 4 and World Service

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as part of their duties, but is now fronted by former BBC correspondents:

Current

Past

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- ''January 2008 - November 2011 (BBC World Service)''

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Audio clips

Justin Webb December 2007

Alan Johnston October 2007
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