From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide
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War Wounds, War Songs
The Middle East on fire - literally and politically; antiwar songs on the wane in the US
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A Japanese Community and an Andean Odyssey
Japan's island communities wither; a road trip from hell through Argentina and Bolivia
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Fighting Back, Against the Odds
Corruption in China, forced marraiges in Cambodia plus Mexico , Australia, Singapore
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Ramadan in Gaza; Referendum in Glasgow
How Gazans observe a holy month; what schoolkids in Scotland think about independence
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Mexico and Argentina
A miasma of fear hangs over Veracruz state; memories of 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires
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India and France: Mind Your Language!
How Indians remake the English language; why the French elite still likes to use Latin
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China and Italy: the Long Arm of the Law
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign strikes hard; why Italy jokes about the carabinieri
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Burma/Myanmar
Burmese smugglers trading in Jade; how Myanmar saw one of the world's first hijackings
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Weekend Fun
Our correspondents enjoy time off in Colombia, India, China, Brazil, Iraq and Ethiopia
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United States and Japan
Working life in Silicon Valley and the perils of crossing Japan's busiest road junction
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Ukraine and Scotland
The Ukranian city going its own way in its allegiances; The Scottish independence debate
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Iraq and Czech Republic
Kirkuk's Football Club struggling to survive; a Jewish cemetry in Czech Republic
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Pakistan and Chile
The Pakistan army's opeartions in North Waziristan; Mapuche food in Chile
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Italy and Brazil
The risks migrants face crossing the Mediterranean, and Sao Paulo's crack addicts
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Liberia, Egypt, Nepal, North Korea and Iceland
Liberian sex trade, media in Egypt, Mount Everest, North Korean restaruants and Iceland.
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Australia and the US
Why a "no more boats" policy applies Down Under; is freedom of (hate) speech American?
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South Sudan and Ethiopia
Famine looms in the aftermath of the Kiir-Machar vendetta; pilgrims and pints in Harar
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Egypt and Lebanon
Egyptians clam up as Sisi's grip tightens; a World Cup fiesta with Palestinians in Beirut
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World War One: The Assassin and his Victims
How Gavrilo Princip is remembered in Bosnia - and Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Austria
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Syrian refugees and Georgia
Syrian refugees struggle to reach asylum in Sweden; meeting the cat woman of Tblisi
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Battlefields
Conflicts past and present - in Kenya, Iraq, Antarctica, Trinidad & Tobago and Spain
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Iraq and Kenya
How Iraq's history shapes a fractured country; Kenyans confront problems beyond tourism
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Liberia and Bosnia
Women turning to prostitution in Liberia; Sarajevo remembers Archduke Ferdinand
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Nepal and Iraq
Meeting an Iraqi Kurd general; Nepalese who carry huge loads up Mount Everest
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Iraq and Trinidad and Tobago
Iraqi Kurds react to the country's crisis and gang violence in Trinidad and Tobago
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Antarctica and Iceland
How superpowers are jockeying for claims on Antarctica; on the trail of elves in Iceland
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Syria, US, Burundi, Myanmar, Niger
War in Syria, US gun culture, jogging in Burundi, poetry in Myanmar, skiing in Niger
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Iraq and Syria, the US and Germany
The dilemmas ISIS pose for Iran and the US; a 1904 disaster for NYC's 'Kleindeutschland'
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India and South Africa
Guitar or sitar in Mumbai's music shops; how the platinum miners' strike affects families
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Burundi and Burma
Why jogging's subversive in Bujumbura - and how 'thyan chat' poetry speaks truth to power