Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
FOOC: World Service, 3 Dec 2009
In this World Service edition, Gerald Butt watches as the Dubai dream crumbles; Guy De Launey asks if Cambodians today can really escape the legacy of the Khmer Rouge; in Bhopal, Jorn Madslien finds a city still struggling to rebuild its economy 25 years after a chemical disaster; Karishma Vaswani meets cheerful polygamists and polygamy opponents in Indonesia; and in Mexico, Stephen Gibbs meets a stylish mayor with some interesting crime-fighting methods. Presented by Alan Johnston.
FOOC: BBC Radio 4 Nov 28 2009
Allan Little's in Bhopal where people recall the night the direction of the wind determined whether you lived or died; Alan Johnston returns to the West Bank to talk about that most contentious of Middle East issues, the Israeli settlements; Christian Fraser in Cairo discusses how the anger which erupted after a World Cup football match turned into a diplomatic slanging match between two neighbours; John Sweeney's in the frozen Russian city of Archangel asking questions about Stalin while...
FOOC: Radio 4 30 Oct 08
This week: Jim Muir in Baghdad explains why hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since the coalition invaded in 2003; in Washington DC Rajini Vaidyanathan considers the state of the US economy over a bowl of french fries in an historic diner; while much of the rest of the world faces recession Humphrey Hawksley discovers that there are jobs aplenty in Romania; Nick Nugent reveals why the people of the mountainous republic of Dagestan are missing out on the boom...