Corresponding with the world

September 23, 2015 3:41 PM

BBC Radio's From Our Own Correspondent (previously on Metafilter) turns 60 this month. To celebrate, they've released several special editions: the first ever UK edition; a discussion panel on foreign reporting's past, present and future (includes a thoughtful discussion of how much a reporter's personal point of view should inform their reporting); and a compilation of notable stories from the past 60 years.
posted by une_heure_pleine (6 comments total)

The notable stories are very good indeed...
posted by jim in austin at 5:31 PM on September 23, 2015

This is a great podcast, and both the UK edition and the discussion panel were wonderful. Thanks for posing the link to the notable stories; I can't wait to listen to them.
posted by Aizkolari at 6:38 PM on September 23, 2015

Before the internet, there was just the bbc world service, and the highlights for me there the Saturday play and "From our own correspondent". They where both exotic and reassuring, in my mother tongue.
I was depressed for days when the world service changed satellite and my area was not covered.
posted by thegirlwiththehat at 9:01 PM on September 23, 2015

From Our Own Correspondent is one of the programmes that turned me into a Radio 4 saddo. Before I knew it, I was also listening to The Archers.
posted by skybluepink at 12:35 AM on September 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

Oh dear lord, I have been downloading and listening to The Archers weekly roundup podcast for months now. Got into them listening to BFBS while living in northern Germany in the late 80s. Re-found them, and now I'm doomed.

Thanks for this update about FOOC. I look forward to exploring the links, especially the notable stories.
posted by hippybear at 1:15 AM on September 24, 2015

The thing I've always liked about FOOC is that the overriding impression one gets is that what ordinary people around the world - up a mountain in Nepal, in the deserts of Somalia, or the rainforests of Brazil - want is just to be left to get on with their lives and not shot at or blown up or whatever. If there's any route to world peace it probably lies in that becoming a general realisation.
posted by Grangousier at 3:54 PM on September 24, 2015