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Anna Foster and some of the Â鶹Éç’s best-known foreign correspondents are joined by an audience of Radio 4 listeners to celebrate 70 years of ‘From Our Own Correspondent’. Since the first episode was broadcast on 25th September 1955, FOOC – as it’s affectionately known – has reported from almost every country in the world.

Anna’s guests for the event, recorded in the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House in London, are Kate Adie, the presenter of FOOC and a former Â鶹Éç Chief News Correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, the Â鶹Éç’s International Editor, Lyse Doucet, the Â鶹Éç’s Chief International Correspondent, and Steve Rosenberg, the Â鶹Éç’s Russia Editor.

They discuss what the job of a foreign correspondent is these days when anyone can get on a plane, take a mobile phone and broadcast to the world. They reflect on how to report on a more hostile world. Together, they offer insights into the world of the foreign correspondent - including the time Jeremy Bowen once told the Mujahideen in Afghanistan that he was Lyse Doucet - and Steve Rosenberg takes to the piano to explain why his hopes for Russia rest with a newspaper vendor in Moscow.

Producers: Adele Armstrong, Serena Tarling and Polly Hope.
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith