11.11.2010 13:14
What's on?: From Our Own Correspondent

When people around the globe think of the BBC and what it represents, they don't just think of London or Britain, but of the contribution of the BBC journalists around the world - the foreign correspondents. From India to Indonesia, from Brazil to Botswana, the BBC has an extensive network to cover the world. One programme is dedicated to these journalists' stories: 'From Our Own Correspondent'.

Foreign correspondents are usually heard detailing important political or economic stories or reporting on natural disasters from the area in which they are based. But From Our Own Correspondent looks at the stories behind the world's headlines and also at some rather more personal reflections of the journalists themselves.

From Our Own Correspondent has been running for over 50 years and is presented by Kate Adie, well-known in the UK for her fearless overseas reporting. Recent editions have included reports about the decline of cinema in Baghdad; an attempt to cut through Algerian red tape; the enigmatic career of Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Spanish concern over immigration and the economy; and the dangers of being a local journalist in Kashmir, India.

One really useful addition to this programme are the scripts which are available for most of the reports on the Archive page. This means that you can read some of the reports from the past months. Click here to read the scripts:

Take a look here at some of the stories from the past 50 years of From Our Own Correspondent: Stalin's legacy in Russia from 1956; travelling on the funeral train of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru from 1964; US soldiers fighting in Vietnam from 1970; the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.