From Our Own Correspondent - Planes, trains and horse-drawn carts

.sc-c-sounds-nav { position: relative; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__menu-button { display: none; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__items { max-height: 500px; visibility: visible; position: static; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__overlay { display: none; } @media screen and (max-width: 659px) { .sc-c-sounds-nav__wrapper { padding-bottom: 0px; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__wordmark-link { padding-bottom: 18px; } }

Sounds home page

Home
Music
Podcasts
My Sounds

From Our Own Correspondent - Planes, trains and horse-drawn carts - 麻豆社 Sounds

From Our Own Correspondent

Planes, trains and horse-drawn cartsPlanes, trains and horse-drawn carts

Released On: 24 Feb 2013

Available for over a year

The pick of recent personal stories and dispatches from correspondents around the world.

More episodes

Programme Website

Coming Up Next

听
now playing
From Our Own Correspondent
Planes, trains and horse-drawn carts
The pick of recent personal stories and dispatches from correspondents around the world.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Uganda鈥檚 rising prices and anger at immigration in Singapore
Dispatches on rising inflation in Uganda and anger over newcomers in Singapore.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
A little-known insurgency in Thailand, plus the price of limes in a rich Australia
An unheralded rebellion in Thailand, plus unintended consequences of wealth in Australia.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Syria and Greece
The human and urban wreckage of civil war around Aleppo; the migrants keen to leave Patras
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
India special: College corruption and cold in Calcutta
Personal stories, insight and wit from Craig Jeffrey in Meerut and the 麻豆社's Rahul Tandon.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Kenya special: coastal grudges and youth superheroes
The roots of today's divides in Kenya; Natasha Breed on a way to avert clashes
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition
Pascale Harter presents dispatches from Australia, Kenya, India, Thailand and France
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Guatemala and Canada
How Mexico's drug wars are spreading south; why Canadians have concerns about free trade.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Mexico and Portugal
Meeting "La Maestra" doesn't go to plan; plus the young Portuguese leaving home in droves
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Bulgaria, Iraq and Britain
Nick Thorpe on the protests rocking Sofia and Kevin Connolly on what's in Iraq's future.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Australia鈥檚 mining boom and Aboriginal lands
Neil Trevithick in Western Australia, where land is rich in memories as well as minerals.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Georgia and Austria: Dealing with dictators
60 years on Stalin is commemorated by some; but few remember Hitler in his birthplace.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 9 March 2013: The Hard Numbers
Personal stories from Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Georgia and Western Australia.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
A personal take on homophobia in Russia
Paul Henley on the trials of being a gay correspondent reporting on anti-homosexual views.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
The Vatican's needs and Sweden's city on the move
Allan Little on why Catholics want "a pastoral man" for Pope; Steve Vickers visits Kiruna.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Turkey and Tunisia
What might Erdogan and Ocalan have in common? And is hope or fear winning out in Tunisia?
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Bangladesh and Pakistan
Why 1971's news still roils Bangladeshis today; how chaos might feed literary creativity.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Austerity in South Sudan and historical amnesia in Japan
Richard Nield on signs of a cash crunch in Juba; Mariko Oi queries Tokyo's history lessons
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 16 March 2013: Remarkable People
Pascale Harter introduces personal stories from Russia, South Africa, Nepal and Lebanon.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Brazil and Lebanon
Exploring prehistoric rock art in Monte Alegre; meeting Maronite hermits around Qannoubine
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Burma, the USA and Israel
Tough at the top, the challenges of leadership for Aung San Suu Kyi and President Obama.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Zimbabwe and Egypt
A new constitution can't lift a pall of fear; why Egypt's railways still dice with death.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Pakistan and India: Identity politics
How sectarian violence still plagues Lahore; why Rajasthanis are queuing up for new IDs.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Karachi and Kansas
Shahzeb Jillani returns to a dangerous Pakistani city; Sarfraz Manzoor meets a film legend
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 23 March 2013: Surprising encounters
Personal stories from Burma, Bangladesh, the Amazon, New York City and cowboy country.
25 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Western Sahara and India
Celeste Hicks on Moroccan tactics in Laayoune; Anthony Denselow on the widows of Vrindavan
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Mongolian minerals and Australian wine
Justin Rowlatt unearths how an Asian mining boom began; Jim Carey follows Oz wine upmarket
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
UAE and Yemen
Simon Atkinson wrestles with red tape in Dubai; Daniel Owen visits Al Ghaydah's fishmarket
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Iraq and Colombia
Why Iraqi Kurdistan wants more visitors; plus, meeting a desert smuggler with 27 children.
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Up in the air
A frequent flyer on Indian plane etiquette; a reporter bids goodbye to Quito's old airport
10 mins
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition: Changing Landscapes
The pick of recent dispatches from Mongolia, Sweden, Egypt, Pakistan, Japan and Colombia
25 mins
听

Cymraeg
Gaeilge
骋脿颈诲丑濒颈驳

Contacts, Privacy and Information
Help with Signing In
Newsletter