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From Our Own Correspondent
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| From our own Correspondent | |
| Other names | FOOC |
| Genre | Current affairs |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC World Service BBC Radio 4 |
| Host(s) | Kate Adie |
| Producer(s) | Tony Grant |
| Air dates | 1955 – Present |
| Website | BBC website |
| Podcast feed | 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 is broadcast on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and was one of the first programmes to be made available as a podcast. The programme was first commissioned in 1955 and today is introduced by veteran news correspondent, Kate Adie. The program offers the BBC's correspondents around the world a chance to give a personal account of events from the epoch making to the inconsequential. From Our Own Correspondent has broadcast some of the finest radio journalism from a news organisation which itself sets the international benchmarks for radio reporting.
A book entitled From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme[2] was published in 2006 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent.
- ^ Watching history unfold: editor Tony Grant reflects on five decades of news
- ^ ISBN 1861977190 hardback, ISBN 1861977476 paperback