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Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

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From Our Own Correspondent: 10/03/2012

10/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 10/03/2012

Kate Adie hosts reporters' tales from Somalia, Japan, Russia, Dubai and Rome.

The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. Kate Adie hosts reporters' tales from Somalia, Japan, Russia, Dubai and Rome.

The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - Julian May hears his story as he drives around Japan a year after the tidal wave and nuclear emergency. Owen Bennett Jones has been meeting Syrians forced into making painful decisions by the ongoing fighting in their country. The BBC's moving out of Bush House in London and, for our man in Rome Alan Johnston, that's a cause of some sadness. Russia's often associated with having autocratic leaders and Tim Whewell's in the city of Krasnodar where many still revere the memory of the empress, Catherine the Great. And Will Ross receives an unexpected invitation to fly into troubled Somalia with the Ethiopian army.

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