World: From Our Own Correspondent: Background
From Our Own Correspondent gives BBC journalists the opportunity to describe what it is really like covering a story and gives them an opportunity to write and broadcast at length, to convey a real sense of the colour and importance of their assignment.
It also offers them the chance to pass on some of their own feelings about a story they are covering or about an event in their own lives. Fergal Keane’s Letter To Daniel, an essay about the birth of his newborn son, broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, was one of the most successful and moving despatches of recent times. Diana Goodman’s account of the appalling conditions in some of Russia’s homes for children also touched a chord, resulting in a huge mailbag.
From Our Own Correspondent, first broadcast in 1955, can be amusing and entertaining, and is always rewarding.
Producers: Tony Grant and Mike Popham
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