Original version

BBC World Service East Asia

From Our Own Correspondent

News

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world.

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

From Our Own Correspondent: Journeys to Understanding

Magazines & Reviews

Journeys to Understanding

29/10/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Journeys to Understanding

Stories from various roads to wisdom in China, Turkey, Germany and the US

We join in China's red pilgrimages, a Sufi festival in Turkey, ongoing British-German dialogue and a US trip taking in both Harvard and Harlem

Owen Bennett Jones introduces stories from reporters and writers who have taken some very different roads to knowledge. In Chongqing, the BBC's China correspondent Carrie Gracie joined a group of Communist Party members who are being shown around sites commemorating the Party's early martyrs, as part of a nationwide campaign against corruption within the State, which hopes to root out spreading graft and the loss of idealism.

Robin Denselow has been to a unique festival of Sufi arts from across the Muslim world, celebrated in Konya, central Turkey. It is never easy to arrange this event's dazzlingly cosmopolitan mix of artists and audience - but this year, he heard, the instability of Turkey itself has made things no easier.

Damien McGuinness explains from Berlin why Germany's press, politicians and public are so baffled by British negotiating tactics and rhetoric over Brexit. In a country where a tray of biscuits is rarely offered twice, they cannot understand when others won't take "no" for a straight answer.

And Lindsay Johns goes from Harvard to Harlem - finding unexpected signs of other Americas in both places, from the Black Lives Matter banners festooning one of the world's most prestigious universities to the hipsters and joggers now to be found above 110th Street.

(Photo: A guide talks to visitors within the dome printed with pictures and names of 310 martyrs, at the Hongyan Soul Exhibition Hall, Chongqing Municipality, China. Credit: Getty Images)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

From Our Own Correspondent

Journeys to Understanding

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service East Asia

About BBC World Service