| Show Name: | From Our Own Correspondent |
| Format: | Current affairs |
| Runtime: | 23–30 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | BBC World Service BBC Radio 4 |
| Presenter: | Kate Adie (BBC Radio 4) Pascale Harter (BBC World Service) |
| Producer: | Andrea Protheroe |
| Editor: | Tony Grant |
| First Aired: | 1955 |
| Last Aired: | Present |
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From Our Own Correspondent is a weekly BBC radio programme in which BBC foreign correspondents deliver a sequence of short talks reflecting on current events and topical themes in the countries outside the UK in which they are based.[1] The programme 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 is broadcast in two editions – one on the BBC World Service and one on BBC Radio 4 – and the programme was one of the first to be made available by the BBC as a podcast.
The programme was first commissioned in 1955. A book entitled From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme[2] was published in 2005 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent. A related series, From Our Home Correspondent, was presented by Mishal Husain and focussed on stories by British domestic correspondents and was broadcast between 2016 and 2020.[3]
The programme was, for many years, presented by the Radio 4 and World Service announcers as part of their duties, but is now fronted by former BBC correspondents:
| Years | Presenter | Current role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998–present | BBC Radio 4 presenter | ||
| 2012–present | Pascale Harter | BBC World Service presenter |