From Our Own Correspondent
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| Other names | FOOC |
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| Genre | Current affairs |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | BBC World Service BBC Radio 4 |
| Hosts | Various (World Service) Kate Adie (Radio 4) et al. |
| Editors | Tony Grant |
| Producers | Andrea Protheroe |
| Air dates | since 1955 |
| Website | BBC Radio |
| Podcast | BBC podcast |
From Our Own Correspondent (also known as "FOOC"[1]) 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 presented for the BBC World Service until November 2011 when he became the BBC's Rome Correspondent. Currently there is no set presenter for the World Service edition.
The programme was first commissioned in 1955. A book entitled From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme[2] was published in 2005 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent.
[edit] References
- ^ Watching history unfold: editor Tony Grant reflects on five decades of news
- ^ Grant, Tony (ed.) (2005). From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme. Profile Books. ISBN 1861977190.
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