From Our Own Correspondent - Weekend Edition 16 March 2013: Remarkable People

.sc-c-sounds-nav { position: relative; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__menu-button { display: none; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__items { max-height: 500px; visibility: visible; position: static; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__overlay { display: none; } @media screen and (max-width: 659px) { .sc-c-sounds-nav__wrapper { padding-bottom: 0px; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__wordmark-link { padding-bottom: 18px; } }

Sounds home page

91热爆
Music
Podcasts
My Sounds

From Our Own Correspondent - Weekend Edition 16 March 2013: Remarkable People - 91热爆 Sounds

From Our Own Correspondent

Weekend Edition 16 March 2013: Remarkable PeopleWeekend Edition 16 March 2013: Remarkable People

Released On: 16 Mar 2013

Available for over a year

Pascale Harter introduces personal stories from Russia, South Africa, Nepal and Lebanon.

More episodes

Programme Website

Coming Up Next

听
now playing
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 16 March 2013: Remarkable People
Pascale Harter introduces personal stories from Russia, South Africa, Nepal and Lebanon.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Brazil and Lebanon
Exploring prehistoric rock art in Monte Alegre; meeting Maronite hermits around Qannoubine
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Burma, the USA and Israel
Tough at the top, the challenges of leadership for Aung San Suu Kyi and President Obama.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Zimbabwe and Egypt
A new constitution can't lift a pall of fear; why Egypt's railways still dice with death.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Pakistan and India: Identity politics
How sectarian violence still plagues Lahore; why Rajasthanis are queuing up for new IDs.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Karachi and Kansas
Shahzeb Jillani returns to a dangerous Pakistani city; Sarfraz Manzoor meets a film legend
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 23 March 2013: Surprising encounters
Personal stories from Burma, Bangladesh, the Amazon, New York City and cowboy country.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Western Sahara and India
Celeste Hicks on Moroccan tactics in Laayoune; Anthony Denselow on the widows of Vrindavan
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Mongolian minerals and Australian wine
Justin Rowlatt unearths how an Asian mining boom began; Jim Carey follows Oz wine upmarket
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
UAE and Yemen
Simon Atkinson wrestles with red tape in Dubai; Daniel Owen visits Al Ghaydah's fishmarket
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Iraq and Colombia
Why Iraqi Kurdistan wants more visitors; plus, meeting a desert smuggler with 27 children.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Up in the air
A frequent flyer on Indian plane etiquette; a reporter bids goodbye to Quito's old airport
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition: Changing Landscapes
The pick of recent dispatches from Mongolia, Sweden, Egypt, Pakistan, Japan and Colombia
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Malaysia and China
Why some look askance at single women in Asia; the home of reformer Kang Youwei in Beijing
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Germany and Bangladesh
How trombones embody the secrets of German small business; one way out of poverty in Dhaka
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Antarctica and India
Even remote Deception Island can be full of tourists; why many Indians avoid sunbathing
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Mali and Angola
With the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara and visiting Neto's grand mausoleum in Luanda
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Swiss bedbugs and Italian trotting races
Switzerland gets itchy about national service and Rome's chariot races run out of time.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 6 April: Single ladies
The pick of recent dispatches from Mali, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Malaysia.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Slovenia, Bulgaria and the UK
Political and economic revolt in Ljubljana and Sofia; missing lambs in wintry Welsh hills
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
National Heroes
Is South Africa already in the post-Mandela era? And why do the French so admire a thief?
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Ukraine and Israel
Meeting an ex-addict and prostitute turned HIV educator; exploring blunt Israeli manners
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Japan and Colombia
Two years on, what's the true toll of Fukushima? And why cosmetic surgery's so big in Cali
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Enduring Mauritius and changing Marseille
Lorraine Mallinder on an island haunted by its past; Mick Webb in a city buffing its image
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 13 March 2013: Risky business
French thieves, Ukrainian cats and the price of fish in Yemen.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Kenya and Mali
Inaugural omens for Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi; an influx from the rural north in Bamako
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Looking to the future
What does the future hold for Afghanistan? And tackling domestic abuse in Bhutan.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
No room for the living or the dead.
Why the dead have their own estate agents in Hong Kong, and vigilante groups in Mexico.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Tunisia and Vietnam
Sufi shrines attacked in Tunisia and crossing a road in Vietnam.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
England - A trip down the River Trent
What can a journey down the River Trent tell us about the currents of history in England?
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition: Cityscapes
Stories from Bamako, Marseille, and Hong Kong; and escapes to the River Trent and the Jura
25 mins
听

Cymraeg
Gaeilge
骋脿颈诲丑濒颈驳

Contacts, Privacy and Information
Help with Signing In
Newsletter