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From Our Own Correspondent: Memorable Despatches

17/09/2015

Memorable Despatches

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Memorable Despatches

A chance to hear in full the despatches referred to in the 60th Anniversary Special.

Kate Adie with the full versions of despatches mentioned in the 60th Anniversary Special discussion. They are from Afghanistan, Gaza, Rwanda, France and Hong Kong.

From Our Own Correspondent is 60 years old this month, and we are marking the anniversary with some special programmes. In this morning's 60th Anniversary Special discussion about foreign reporting, some of the featured panellists and correspondents in the audience talked about despatches they remembered. Kate Adie now introduces those reports in full. 

They include Lyse Doucet on the Afghan New Year in 2012, Tim Whewell on the only grand piano in Gaza earlier this year, Lindsey Hilsum on the frightening days of genocide in Rwanda in 1994, James Coomarasamy in Paris in 2003 when his son's paediatrician recommended roquefort cheese, and Fergal Keane writing to his newborn son in Hong Kong in 1996. 

Producer: Arlene Gregorius.

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