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FOOC: Feb 11, 2012 Updated: 2012-02-11 12:04:00 Description: That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension between Britain and Argentina as the anniversary of the Falklands War approaches. Fergal Keane is in Buenos Aires where a longing to redeem the islands is deeply felt; A...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 9 Feb, 2012 Updated: 2012-02-09 11:50:00 Description: From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government power in Tunis who talks of The Archers and how Britain's the most Islamic country he's ever lived in. Michael Bristow finds the Chinese secret police not so secret a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 4, 2012 Updated: 2012-02-04 12:00:00 Description: After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan Johnston tells...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 2 Feb, 2012 Updated: 2012-02-02 11:45:00 Description: A rich seam of frustration - over poverty, bad leadership and corruption -- is being mined by the Nigerian militants Boko Haram, according to Andrew Harding.The fall of Colonel Gaddafi, says David Willey in Rome, has given Italy an opportunity to bre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 28 Jan, 2012 Updated: 2012-01-28 12:02:00 Description: From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris. Jeremy Paxman on why he says: let's hear it for the Chinese Communist party. Mary Harper visits the Ethiopian town at the centre of the world qat trade. Mark Doyle invest...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 26 Jan 2012 Updated: 2012-01-26 13:00:00 Description: Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi's providing an economic windfall for Jordan. Pauline Davies learns what's meant by marriage Papua New Guinea-style at the nuptials of her niece ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 21, 2012 Updated: 2012-01-21 12:01:00 Description: BBC correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives them a guilty conscience! At least it does Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem. He's been losing sleep over his lemon tree. Humphrey Hawksley's been meeting children in India ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 19, 2012 Updated: 2012-01-19 11:31:00 Description: The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it. Timothy Allen tells us that's how things are in one northeastern Indian state, where a nascent men's liberation movement is having little impact. Mark Lowen is in Libya, wher...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 14, 2012 Updated: 2012-01-14 12:01:00 Description: The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban. Caroline Wyatt, who's just back from Kabul, examines how their lives might change once the international community withdraws its troops from their country. Nick Th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 07, 2012 Updated: 2012-01-07 12:15:00 Description: Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a series of reforms is underway? Fergal Keane has been accompanying the British foreign secretary on his visit there and offers an assessment of latest developments ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 31, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-31 11:32:00 Description: Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel Gaddafi in October. A chance to hear again some of the BBC's senior correspondents filing on the long road to Tripoli and charting a revolution which stunned the wo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BBC World Service FOOC: Dec 30, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-30 09:00:00 Description: An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch by Gavin Esler. In the runup to a Presidential election, he explored small-town America's values and aspirations in Manchester, NH. And as things are toda...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BBC World Service FOOC: Dec 29, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-29 09:00:00 Description: Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time "A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam". Norilsk, 1994 Owen Bennett Jones introduces a despatch from Kevin Connolly in the ci...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BBC World Service FOOC: Dec 28, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-28 09:00:00 Description: The Truth is Our Currency Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997 by Martin Bell. At a time when television news in particular had been focusing on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, journalism was wrestling with issue...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BBC World Service FOOC: Dec 27, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-27 09:00:00 Description: The Road to Mandalay Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984. Veteran correspondent Bob Jobbins describes a journey through Burma's history and culture as he travels from Rangoon to Mandalay....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BBC World Service FOOC: Dec 26, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-26 09:00:00 Description: "The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from the country then still known as Zaire. Allan Little describes the last days of the Mobutu regime and the adv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 24, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-24 12:09:00 Description: A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via World War Two Italy to Renaissance Tuscany. The most cosseted pets in the world: it's no dog's life, says Joanna Robertson, for the pampered pooches of Paris. High in t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 17, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-17 12:01:00 Description: The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in Canada where some believe it's a far better animal to be the country's national symbol than the one which currently holds the honour, the beaver -- Lorraine Mallinder ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 10, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-10 12:01:00 Description: 'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show cracks.' Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow on a weekend of more demonstrations. The Americans are preparing for their withdrawal from Iraq and Gabriel Gatehouse has been ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 3, 2011 Updated: 2011-12-03 12:02:00 Description: Being Italian is bad for your health! That's the contention from Bologna where winter is descending and a range of ailments, unknown to British correspondent Danny Mitzman, are making their presence felt! It's election time in the Democratic Republic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 26, 2011 Updated: 2011-11-26 12:00:00 Description: 'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned observer to Andrew Harding as he travels in the Democratic Republic of Congo wondering if Monday's election is a chance for Africa's wounded giant to get back on its feet. And there's another ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 19, 2011 Updated: 2011-11-19 12:00:00 Description: Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo takes a closer look at the Tahrir Square revolution as Egyptians prepare to cast their votes. David Loyn's in Burma where vested interests, the cronies they're someti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 12, 2011 Updated: 2011-11-12 12:18:00 Description: "That's nobody's business but the Turks'." A quote from one of several songs which feature Turkey which are in turn quoted by Kevin Connolly as he talks about why the country remains keen to join the EU despite the Union's problems with debt and inse...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 10, 2011 Updated: 2011-11-10 11:30:00 Description: 'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for re-election but today, as Rob Young's been finding out, there's growing discontent at steeply rising food and fuel prices. There are accusations in Kyrgyzstan of persecuti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 05, 2011 Updated: 2011-11-05 12:00:00 Description: America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East. And Reggie Nadelson's there, in the port of Vladiovostok. The city, once closed to foreigners, is getting a big makeover. It'll be the new San Francisco, some claim. Paul Moss is in Athens where it...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 03, 2011 Updated: 2011-11-03 11:30:00 Description: Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about the country's debt crisis -- Manuela Saragosa's been meeting some Italians who feel Mr.Berlusconi's become a liability and should resign. The G20 meeting is report...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Oct 29, 2011 Updated: 2011-10-29 18:30:00 Description: The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia indicates, according to Fergal Keane, that for Africa's whites, the long journey towards feeling they have a future as of right on the continent is finally underway. David Willey in Rome tells of It...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Oct 27, 2011 Updated: 2011-10-27 10:30:00 Description: A dystopian vision of Venice - Rachel Harvey's words as she watches the flood waters approaching Bangkok's city centre. Allan Little, covering the historic first Arab Spring election in Tunisia, says there aren't many days in a life spent chasing new...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 22 Oct 2011 Updated: 2011-10-22 11:00:00 Description: Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel Gaddafi was found. Kevin Connolly wonders if Gaddafi will be the last of the "grotesque, blood-stained buffoon dictators." Peter Day is in Argentina, which famously def...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 20 Oct 2011 Updated: 2011-10-20 10:25:00 Description: Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world. Today Jonathan Head ask what keeps the fighters in Libya going, risking their lives, when perhaps they don't really have to? Sue Lloyd Roberts experiences life trapped in your own flat, with young c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 15 Oct 2011 Updated: 2011-10-15 11:02:00 Description: Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights abuses? Frank Gardner gives his assessment after meeting the King and the Prime Minister - and joining the riot police on patrol. Yolande Knell in Cairo says that ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 13 Oct, 2011 Updated: 2011-10-13 11:00:00 Description: 'I'll Not Do It Again!' That's the verdict of some foreign businessmen, out of pocket after getting involved in the Indian market. Mark Dummett in Delhi examines whether this is really a difficult country in which to do business. Embarrassment for th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 08 Oct 2011 Updated: 2011-10-08 11:01:00 Description: Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious reminders Lyse Doucet has of her reporting trip to beleaguered Syria; Nick Danziger's been back to Kabul and wondered why the voices of Afghan women are too often ignored; Steve Evans in Be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Oct 6, 2011 Updated: 2011-10-06 11:00:00 Description: A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little. He's been meeting the Islamists, determined not only to be a part of the post-Gaddafi government but also to forge a new working relationship with the West; Chr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Oct 1, 2011 Updated: 2011-10-01 11:15:00 Description: An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway. Inside the Arctic Circle. But why is it that this place has such firm connections with Italy. Christine Finn has the answer. Justin Webb examines a Japanese conundrum...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 29 Sept, 2011 Updated: 2011-09-29 17:59:00 Description: They came from all over: serious men from Seville and Madrid with their fine suits and Havana cigars to see the last bullfight in the historic stadium in Barcelona. Robert Elms was also there to witness the final show. Attempts to clamp down on the h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 24 September 2011 Updated: 2011-09-24 11:08:00 Description: Kate Adie shares stories behind the headlines with correspondents around the world. David Loyn is at the funeral of Burhanuddin Rabbani reflecting on the return to prominence of Afghanistan's warlords. Tim Mansel looks at the intimate relationship be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 22 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-22 10:30:00 Description: Katie Adie presents more despatches from foreign correspondents. As forces try to oust Gaddafi loyalists holding out in his home town of Sirte, our correspondent Alastair Leithead ponders the dilemmas of keeping the story in the news. In Pakistan, th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Sept 17, 2011 Updated: 2011-09-17 11:05:00 Description: Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final Gaddafi loyalists -- Justin Marozzi's been learning of the tensions in a small community in the far south of Libya. Katy Watson in Doha on how the Gulf state of Qatar w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Sept 15, 2011 Updated: 2011-09-15 11:00:00 Description: How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with thousands of unexpected air passengers? Jo Fidgen is in Gander, Newfoundland, with a story of 9.11 kindness. In Sudan, there are fears of a new offensive by government tr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Sept 10, 2011 Updated: 2011-09-10 11:15:00 Description: Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, wonders why his precious notebooks keep going missing. Mishal Husain travels though five countries finding out about the role Twitter and Facebook h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Sept 3, 2011 Updated: 2011-09-03 11:15:00 Description: The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was out shopping -- and tells a story of a capital city trying to return to normal. Few parts of the United States have escaped the economic downturn -- as Jonny Dymond's been finding out on a Ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 27, 2011 Updated: 2011-08-27 11:15:00 Description: The Arab-Israeli conflict seems to have been sidelined in this year of revolutions. But our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen tells us that it hasn't gone away, and the signs are not good. It was 37-degrees at the Italian air base where Jonathan Marcus...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 20 Aug 2011 Updated: 2011-08-20 11:15:00 Description: 'Politics at its most brutal, its most basic, democracy as a demolition derby.' That's Mark Mardell's view as he contemplates months of Republican infighting ahead of next year's US presidential election. The Moscow coup of twenty years ago: Bridget ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 13th August 2011 Updated: 2011-08-13 10:30:00 Description: Aleem Maqbool reports on Karachi, where inter-ethnic violence between Urdu speakers and Pashtuns has killed hundreds in the last few months; as Sonia Gandhi receives medical treatment in the US, Mark Tully explores her enduring political power in Ind...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4 August 6th 2011 Updated: 2011-08-06 10:40:00 Description: Mexico's drug wars are notoriously violent and the killings have spread to neighbouring Guatemala. Linda Pressly has been to the scene of a gruesome massacre in northern Guatemala. The "indignados" in Spain began their protests in May, angry at the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 30th 2011 Updated: 2011-07-30 11:00:00 Description: Today: Peter Svaar finds out that the man behind the killings in Norway was his class mate and friend. Charles Haviland visits northern Sri Lanka to see if life is returning to normal there. Justin Rowlatt examines if Iceland, which refused to pay of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 23, 2011 Updated: 2011-07-23 10:35:00 Description: Will Thursday's eurozone agreement be enough to save the European single currency and the union of European nations? Chris Morris in Brussels considers the deal designed to prevent the debt crisis from spreading. Michael Buchanan was in Helmand provi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 16, 2011 Updated: 2011-07-16 11:15:00 Description: Could the Libyan rebels be poised to march on the capital Tripoli? Gabriel Gatehouse, who's been spending time with them near the coastal city of Misrata, doubts they have the capability for military victory; Andrew Hosken's just returned from Somali...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 9, 2011 Updated: 2011-07-09 11:15:00 Description: They are celebrating in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world's newest country. But Fergus Nicoll, who's there, says its leaders must address some of the lessons they've been handed down by history. Who's visiting the great archaeological sites...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 7, 2011 Updated: 2011-07-07 11:00:00 Description: The end of the world is nigh! Well, it is according to one estimate. But Chris Bockman who's in the French Pyrenees says there's a village there where you might just be safe. Much joy's being reported in South Sudan. Peter Martell's in this region wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: July 2, 2011 Updated: 2011-07-02 11:15:00 Description: The Greek austerity bill may have been passed by the Athens parliament, but Justin Rowlatt's wondering if anyone expects it to be fully implemented. It may be one of the most polluted cities in the world but Delhi, as Anu Anand has been finding out, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 30, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-30 11:00:00 Description: Now the Greek parliament's voted for austerity, large numbers of people working in the country's huge public sector are waiting to see where first the axe will fall -- Manuela Saragosa's in Athens. Saving cash is a theme throughout Europe and Mark Lo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 25, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-25 11:15:00 Description: The lights go out in the United States. It's only a simulation at present but Mark Mardell in Washington says it's evidence the US military is taking seriously the threat of war in cyberspace. Inside the walls of a prison in the Horn of Africa our co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 23, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-23 11:00:00 Description: A voice from Croatia's war-torn past is recalled by Allan Little in Zagreb as the EU prepares to admit this country to full membership of the Union. Chris Morris is in Athens as Greece faces fresh hurdles in its attempts to avoid defaulting on its de...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 18, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-18 11:15:00 Description: The ultimate failed state. That's what some call Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Peter Greste is in the capital Mogadishu, perhaps the most dangerous city in the world. He's finding out why thousands of Somalis are leaving homes in the countryside and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 16, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-16 12:00:00 Description: Tunisia's fragile revolution is under threat from the violent uprising in Libya. Pascale Harter, investigating in these borderlands, also reveals what a football commentary sounds like in Libya where the only name permissible is that of Gaddafi. The ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 11, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-11 11:15:00 Description: The bloody events in Syria are making the government in neighbouring Turkey uneasy, as Hugh Sykes has been finding out on the eve of the Turkish general election there; Chris Hogg's in Taiwan where, amid a thawing in relations with mainland China, th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 9, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-09 11:00:00 Description: Amid uproar in and around Syria, Kevin Connolly considers suggestions that there have been attempts by the authorities in Damascus to manipulate the news agenda to distract the world from events going on in their country. A year after violent disturb...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 4, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-04 11:15:00 Description: A mysterious encounter with the sinister Colonel Tariq, thought to be from Pakistani Intelligence, is described by Aamer Ahmed Khan. Tim Whewell's in the Sinai Desert finding a roaring trade in rifles. A guided tour of Benghazi with Andrew Hosken: he...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: June 2, 2011 Updated: 2011-06-02 11:00:00 Description: The E.coli outbreak in Germany is the subject of a despatch from Steve Evans in Berlin who's been finding out how it's sending ripples throughout Europe, affecting sales of fruit and vegetables and altering families' eating habits. As General Mladic ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: May 28, 2011 Updated: 2011-05-28 11:15:00 Description: Fin de Siecle Deauville hosts the G8 summit of world leaders where there have been clear signs of a different world order emerging -- Bridget Kendall's been taking note. Andrew Harding tells us what it's like in Misrata which endured a two month seig...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: May 26, 2011 Updated: 2011-05-26 10:45:00 Description: The Roman Catholic Church is accused of running a dirty campaign as the people of Malta prepare to vote in a referendum on divorce. Jake Wallis Simons has been gauging the mood in and around the capital, Valletta; Anna Cavell, who's in Kampala, Ugand...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: May 21, 2010 Updated: 2011-05-21 11:15:00 Description: The carrots and sticks which the authorities in Saudi Arabia hope will persuade their people that protest is not a sensible option -- Michael Buchanan is gauging opinion in the desert kingdom. Who'll be the next president of Russia - Putin, Medvedev ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: May 14, 2011 Updated: 2011-05-14 11:15:00 Description: Assisted suicide: as the people of Zurich in Switzerland prepare to vote on the issue, Imogen Foulkes tells a moving story about a couple who believed they had a right to decide on a date for death. Fergal Keane considers the historical significance ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: May 7, 2011 Updated: 2011-05-07 11:15:00 Description: Weeks of violent confrontation in Uganda: Will Ross is in Kampala where lawyers are the latest group to protest against the regime of President Museveni. Mishal Husain is in the Pakistani town of Abottabad, where the life of Osama bin Laden, the worl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: April 30, 2011 Updated: 2011-04-30 11:15:00 Description: A very French murder story: Hugh Schofield tells how France has been transfixed by an appalling human drama -- the killing of a mother, three sons and a daughter. Owen Bennett Jones questions whether depicting the news from Syria as 'brutal suppressi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: April 23, 2011 Updated: 2011-04-23 11:15:00 Description: Students aren't revolting in Qatar and Oman -- Robin Lustig's been to the Gulf states to see what effect the uprisings in parts of the Arab world are having there. Justin Marozzi's in Libya as questions are being asked about who will run the country ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: April 16, 2011 Updated: 2011-04-16 11:09:00 Description: 'The Bahrain I had known wasn't there' - Frank Gardner, who used to live on the Gulf island, reports on life there under a state of emergency. The 7/7 bombings in London claimed victims of many nationalities; Nick Beake has travelled to Poland to hea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: April 09, 2011 Updated: 2011-04-09 11:15:00 Description: 'Even the winners are losers'-- Andrew Harding goes on a road journey through devastated, terrified Ivory Coast; Robert Hodierne on the homes being built for limbless former combat troops in the United States; Stephen Sackur's in the Australian outba...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: April 2, 2011 Updated: 2011-04-02 11:15:00 Description: Visiting time at Yemen's jail for political prisoners: Genevieve Bicknell meets the families of some of those detained who tell her why they feel it's time for the country's president to step down. Mark Urban, just back from Afghanistan, talks of a n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: March 26, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-26 12:15:00 Description: Crisis in the Eurozone -- Chris Morris in Brussels says we're ignoring it at our peril. Sue Lloyd Roberts hears two opinions about Saudi Arabia: do its women live pampered lives or are they kept prisoners? Nick Thorpe's in a village in eastern Hungar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: March 19, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-19 12:15:00 Description: Explosions and gunfire in Benghazi -- Kevin Connolly on the struggle for power in eastern Libya; Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in Tokyo where there's growing fear at the prospect of nuclear meltdown. Hannah Barnes has been talking to lovers of Hebrew who...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: March 17, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-17 10:37:00 Description: Colossal forces of nature have devastated Japan and the country faces the possibility of a nuclear disaster; but in the teeth of catastrophe Rachel Harvey discovers an extraordinary resilience on the part of the Japanese people. Egypt is undergoing m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: March 12, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-12 12:15:00 Description: Earthquake in Japan: Hugh Levinson on how fear of catastrophe has helped shape the country's psyche; menace and bloodshed in Ivory Coast's largest city - Andrew Harding on the violence triggered by a dispute over the presidency. What impact has the f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Mar 10, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-10 11:44:00 Description: Michael Buchanan goes behind the front lines in the rebel city of Benghazi in Libya and finds many are still giddy with delight at their new found freedom. John James has been watching the West African State of Ivory Coast descend into chaos over the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: March 5, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-05 12:15:00 Description: Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi but, as Kevin Connolly's been discovering, there's fear too. Could Saudi Arabia be touched by this season of revolt in the Middle East? It's a question answered by a correspondent who knows ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Mar 03, 2011 Updated: 2011-03-03 12:30:00 Description: A restaurant date with Colonel Gaddafi: Jeremy Bowen talks revolution and politics with the Libyan leader. Chris Hogg in Shanghai -- is an Arab-style political spring likely to blossom in China? Steve Evans is in Berlin explaining the fall from grace...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 26, 2011 Updated: 2011-02-26 11:59:00 Description: Our correspondent - who can't be named - describes life in Tripoli with its empty streets, boarded up shops and burnt out buildings. Barbara Plett describes the strange goings on at the United Nations with Libya's diplomats divided over support f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 24, 2011 Updated: 2011-02-24 13:10:00 Description: The Black Sea resort of Sochi is preparing to host the next Winter Olympics. But following an attack on tourists at a Russian ski resort, Stephen Rosenberg hears concerns that Sochi could become a target for terrorism. As the people of Dresden commem...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 19, 2011 Updated: 2011-02-19 12:15:00 Description: The unrest sweeping north Africa and the Middle East reaches Bahrain and Bill Law explains some of the tension in this island kingdom. Paul Adams travels through Egypt to see if calm is returning after the recent disturbances. As a momentous election...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 17, 2011 Updated: 2011-02-17 10:42:00 Description: The wind of change sweeps across parts of the Middle East and North Africa -- an assessment from Jeremy Bowen. Basque separatist group ETA announced last year they would no longer use violence to campaign for the region's independence; Sarah Rainsfor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 12, 2010 Updated: 2011-02-12 12:15:00 Description: Weeks of drama in Egypt reach a climax with the resignation of President Mubarak. Hugh Sykes tells of the joy in Cairo's Tahrir Square; Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines what will happen to the army of police, thugs and torturers who enforced Mubarak's...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 10 2011 Updated: 2011-02-10 11:45:00 Description: The generals in Cairo watch and wait as the demonstrations continue: Jon Leyne considers their possible role in the days and weeks ahead. Bethany Bell attends a spectacular Viennese ball and finds that the possible succession in Egypt is the talk of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Feb 5, 2011 Updated: 2011-02-05 12:19:00 Description: With Egypt in turmoil Kevin Connolly discovers what Hosni Mubarak's sense of timing says about his character. Malcolm Brabant has been finding out how the dreams of migrants die on the streets of Athens. Why a Chinese chicken farmer is ruffling feath...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 03 Feb 2011 Updated: 2011-02-03 12:02:00 Description: President Mubarak of Egypt is desperate to leave office with a degree of dignity, but Lyse Doucet meets people in Cairo who think the time for change is now. US-led forces in Afghanistan feel they are making progress; Robert Fox considers whether thi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 29, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-29 12:13:00 Description: Spectacular political developments across the Arab world as viewed from the Corniche in Beirut by Kevin Connolly; Quentin Somerville in Kabul views shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice; Madeleine Morris is in the Indian state of Andrha ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 27, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-27 11:32:00 Description: The rampant corruption that blights India's dreams of a brighter future is chronicled by Chris Morris. Justin Marozzi is on the frontline of one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Sarah Monaghan is in once-thriving Dubai, the emirate learning to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 22, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-22 12:15:00 Description: Is China's economic muscle crushing the heart out of blue-collar America? Justin Rowlatt's been to Ohio to find out. But while America's industrial heartland's feeling the pinch, Mike Wendling finds that, in the social networking industry, Americans ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 20, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-20 11:32:00 Description: As the political crisis in Lebanon deepens, Jeremy Bowen explores the country's tangled politics and finds out why intrigue surrounding the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri five years ago is driving events today. Adam Mynott was in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 15, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-15 12:15:00 Description: Violence on the streets of north Africa -- Chloe Arnold in Algeria says it's not only been a problem for the authorities in Tunisia. Southern Sudan's farmers have been talking to Will Ross about their dreams of peace in a new nation; the Communists o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 8, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-08 12:15:00 Description: The assassin who was garlanded: Orla Guerin on murder on the streets of Islamabad and the extent of extremism in Pakistan. Mark Doyle returns to his old stamping ground in Ivory Coast and visits the hotel that once gave pony rides to his son and now ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Jan 1, 2011 Updated: 2011-01-01 12:01:00 Description: Nineteen correspondents from around the world join Kate Adie in this special New Year edition of the programme. They consider such matters as the 'park and pray' facilities on German's motorways, a reporter's dilemma on encountering a baby close to d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 18, 2010 Updated: 2010-12-18 12:15:00 Description: Three years in America: Kevin Connolly has time to reflect as he prepares to leave an eventful posting in the United States. A cocaine factory is blown to pieces in a Colombian jungle clearing -- Frank Gardner was there watching as the security force...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 11, 2010 Updated: 2010-12-11 10:51:00 Description: Can America's dollars buy hearts and minds in southern Afghanistan? It's a subject Michael Buchanan has been examining in Helmand province; Hugh Sykes has been finding out how some Palestinians and Israelis have been forging connections across their ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Dec 4, 2010 Updated: 2010-12-04 10:50:00 Description: The great silence that is the legacy of genocide -- Neil Trevithick considers the legacy of brutality in Cambodia; Andrew Harding manages to relax on the beach in war-weary Mogadishu and finds some Somalians optimistic about the future; Paul Adams ea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 27, 2010 Updated: 2010-11-27 11:24:00 Description: Why Pakistan's flood victims feel they've been let down by their rulers – Jill McGivering’s been investigating; Peter Day’s just back from China with the story of a victim of the Cultural Revolution who emerged from prison and made a fortune. R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 20 2010 Updated: 2010-11-20 12:05:00 Description: Ireland prepares to say goodbye to the best and brightest of its youth – Gavin Hewitt’s been finding out how the economic crisis there has forced thousands to consider emigration; Mark Urban’s at the NATO summit in Lisbon and points out that wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: November 13, 2010 Updated: 2010-11-13 12:12:00 Description: A dark portrait is painted by our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of millions of Russian lives lost in alcohol and despair; there are reflections on the death of a deeply troubled German hero from Eleanor Oldroyd; Will Ross explores the division...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 11 Nov 2010 Updated: 2010-11-11 10:40:00 Description: Christian families are leaving Iraq in large numbers amid continuing sectarian violence, Jim Muir has the latest developments. John Humphrys travels to China and finds political perils threaten the country's booming economy. In South Africa, Hamilton...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Nov 4, 2010 Updated: 2010-11-04 12:02:00 Description: An undercover exploration of the glittering new capital city built by Burma's generals is carried out by Sue Lloyd-Roberts; Damian Grammaticas looks at the population count in China that will shed light on more than a billion lives; Daniel Schweimler...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 30 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-30 11:19:00 Description: The ruined heart of an American city, laid waste by economic collapse, is explored by Paul Mason; Mary Harper visits a hotel in Nairobi that's become a little piece of Somalia; from a South African prison, Hamilton Wende tells an inspiring tale of gu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: Oct 28 2010 Updated: 2010-10-28 11:30:00 Description: Extra police have been drafted in to the Swedish city of Malmo -- Tim Mansel, who's there, says a gunman is on the loose who seems to have immigrants in his sights. The Chinese villages condemned to drown beneath the rising waters of the Yangtze - Pe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 23 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-23 10:59:00 Description: Today: We hear French lessons for an American truck driver; the surprising story of why some schools in Japan are funded by the North Koreans; there are the explicit stories told to get the Aids message across to Ugandan children; and we learn how a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 21 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-21 10:30:00 Description: Today: we hear from Aleem Maqbool in Pakistan where it's easier to blame others for your troubles than to really face up to them; we're in Berber country, in Algeria, with Jonathan Fryer, where until recently kidnappings and killings were commonplac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: 16 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-16 11:05:00 Description: A huge welcome -- from some at least --as the President of Iran comes to southern Lebanon, Jeremy Bowen was there watching. Humphrey Hawksley's in Kiev as Ukrainians look nostalgically back to the days when they were part of the Soviet empire; a mix...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 14 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-14 10:32:00 Description: The Colombian fighters who've given up the struggle, opting for education instead -- Robin Lustig has been to meet them; Gideon Long in Chile on what the rescue at the Copiapo mine tells us about the Chilean character; a flowering of democracy in Kyr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 7 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-12 08:47:00 Description: A mesmerising speech from a great South African churchman: the retirement of Archbishop Tutu is marked by Allan Little; Ian Pannell on the increasingly unsafe roads of Afghanistan; Farhana Dawood is in Leipzig noting the continuing divisions between ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 9 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-09 11:04:00 Description: Why some pro-democracy candidates in Burma won't be contesting the forthcoming elections; Pascale Harter's in Spain examining worries about the economy and the changes which a wave of immigration has brought to Spanish culture; In Srinagar, Kashmir, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 2 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-02 11:15:00 Description: Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Steve Evans is in the east of the country as the anniversary of reunification approaches. Baghdad once had dozens of cinemas playing to full houses and even hosting glittering premieres. Gabriel Gate...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 30 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-30 09:38:00 Description: After years of conflict in Uganda, the people of Acholiland are returning home; but Richard Dowden finds memories of war are straining the Acholi tradition of forgiveness. Peter Marshall meets the British woman on death row in Texas, and considers wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 25 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-25 11:09:00 Description: A corner of old Germany is unearthed in Latin America as Will Grant follows Venezuelans preparing for a crucial vote. Jonathan Head travels to the east of Turkey where there’s been, according to the government, a gesture of reconciliation towards a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 23 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-23 10:30:00 Description: Why is China restoring a British railway in Angola? Justin Rowlatt boards the Benguela Railway. A new generation is shaping the future of Afghanistan: Lyse Doucet finds out how. Just back in Russia, Steve Rosenberg considers the country's future. Ann...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 18 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-18 11:15:00 Description: Why are America's new breed of soldiers studying philosophy? David Edmonds is in New York state finding out. Jon Leyne has been monitoring speculation in Cairo about who will succeed President Mubarak. There's a significant diplomatic development, Ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 16 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-16 09:44:00 Description: A big week for the Turkish Prime Minister. Jonathan Head gauges reaction to his growing power. Jennifer Pak finds out what sex education is like for teenagers in Malaysia. Angus Crawford meets the children of Senegal made to beg for money by their te...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 11 September 2010 Updated: 2010-09-11 11:01:00 Description: Will economics force the French to rethink their lifestyles? It's a question Christian Fraser in Paris answers in the week a million French people took to the streets to protest at the government's plans to raise the retirement age. On the anniversar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 4 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-04 11:16:00 Description: There's a dilemma for Jill McGivering, covering the floods in Pakistan; Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad on the changing lexicon as America redefines its mission in Iraq; Wyre Davies is in Jerusalem and detects little optimism for the Middle East peace t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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