From Our Own Correspondent by Tony Grant
For almost 50 years, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programmes. Every week correspondents from around the world report on the stories behind the headlines. There are few countries and subjects which have not featured on the programme. It covers places as diverse as the Faroes, Moldova, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and Sao Tome and Principe, one of Africa's smallest countries. Much of the correspondents' work is little more than writing to television pictures or covering the day's events in one report of perhaps only a minute's duration. From Our Own Correspondent gives some of Britain's most celebrated reporters the opportunity to describe much more: context, relevant history, characters encountered en route, a description of a foreign country or capital. The correspondents relay the unexpected: a 40-course Chinese banquet, swimming with sharks, a zero gravity on a flight with Russian cosmonauts, mud wrestling in Turkey or ballroom dancing in Cameroon. They offer a unique perspective - sometimes live to the sound of gunfire - to the background important world events as they happen. The book is introduced by Kate Adie.
Shows the wonderfully diverse range of styles and subjects* Metro London *
...the best dispatches and there is a great mix, ranging from hard-hitting to quirky personal stories. * Belfast Telegraph *
You don't lose the detail in FOOC: it luxuriates in full, florid complexity. * Guardian *
You must read From Our Own Correspondent: 50 years of dispatches from the Radio 4 programme, displaying its depth, variety and brilliance * Sunday Times *
...the best dispatches and there is a great mix, ranging from hard-hitting to quirky personal stories. * Belfast Telegraph *
You don't lose the detail in FOOC: it luxuriates in full, florid complexity. * Guardian *
You must read From Our Own Correspondent: 50 years of dispatches from the Radio 4 programme, displaying its depth, variety and brilliance * Sunday Times *
Tony Grant, the son of an ancient historian, joined the BBC after working in commercial radio and on newspapers in Merseyside. At the BBC he was at Radio 1's Newsbeat before becoming a foreign news editor and then, in 1992, the producer of From Our Own Correspondent. A keen cricketer, he is married to a political correspondent. They have two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861977199 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861977190 |
| Title | From Our Own Correspondent |
| Author | Tony Grant |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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