From Our Own Correspondent
A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
$35.95
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2022
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474612012 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474612016 |
| Author: | Polly Hope |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
A flagship BBC radio programme for 65 years, From Our Own Correspondent has always sought to bring listeners the stories behind the headlines and unexpected tales that don’t make the news. Here, editor Polly Hope compiles engrossing dispatches from the past decade, spanning every continent. These powerful, personal testimonies from the BBC’s foreign correspondents transport the reader from the World Cup to the Arab Spring via refugee camps and the Vatican, and meditate on issues ranging from Brexit to climate change. * RADIO TIMES *
About The Author
Polly Hope
Polly Hope was born in London in 1972 and attended the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has produced Radio 4 documentaries from Venezuela, Cuba, Taiwan, Mexico and the USA. For over a decade she has worked with the team producing From Our Own Correspondent.
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