A dip in the archive

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To mark the end of From Our Own Correspondent's 50th anniversary year in 2005, there were special programmes on both BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service featuring some of the most memorable correspondent reports from over the years.

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<a class="bodl" href="#1">BBC World Service, Listener Request Special</a> <a class="bodl" href="#2">Radio 4, 50th Anniversary Year Special</a> <a class="bodl" href="#3">BBC World Service, Listener Request Special</a>

You can also listen to the latest Radio 4 and World Service editions of From Our Own Correspondent at the programme website.

<a name="1"></a> WORLD SERVICE

<hr>From Our Own Correspondent Listener Request SpecialBBC World Service <a class="bodl" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ram/fooc/051224_archive.ram">Listen to the programme</a> <hr>

We asked our World Service listeners what reports from the programme they would like to hear again. We received e-mails and letters from around the world and using these we have created two special programmes, one for 2005 and another looking back at some of your favourites from five decades. Below are some of the reports you requested.

<a class="bodl" href="/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4319340.stm">Stripping Gaza bare, by Alan Johnston</a>

In October 2005, Alan Johnston reported on the mood of Palestinians one month after the Israeli withdrawal.

First broadcast: 8 October, 2005<hr>

<a class="bodl" href="/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4318029.stm">A Swiss hygiene inspector calls, by Imogen Foulkes</a>

Moving house is said to be one of life's most stressful experiences but, in Switzerland, it is made even more so by strict requirements on how you leave your old home.

Imogen Foulkes moved house in March and describes the day the hygiene inspector came to call.

First broadcast: Saturday, 5 March, 2005

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<a name="2"></a> RADIO 4

<hr>From Our Own Correspondent50th Anniversary Year Special BBC Radio 4 <a class="bodl" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/ram/fooc_20051229.ram">Listen to the programme</a> <hr>

The Radio 4 programme recalls some classic From Our Own Correspondent reports and speaks to the correspondents about their experiences in the field. Those despatches featured include the following reports from Fergal Keane and Stephen Sackur.

<a class="bodl" href="/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4278450.stm">A letter with a lingering message, by Fergal Keane</a>

Fergal Keane reflects on how his life has changed in the 10 years since he wrote the piece that became the most famous From Our Own Correspondent, Letter To Daniel.

First broadcast: 24 September, 2005

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<a class="bodl" href="/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4448051.stm">Hanging up the microphone, by Stephen Sackur</a>

So what happens when a foreign correspondent finally hangs up his microphone?

Stephen Sackur, who has reported from Jerusalem, Cairo, Washington and Brussels swapped his nomadic life as a correspondent for the comfort of a television studio in London.

First broadcast: 16 April, 2005

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<a name="3"></a> WORLD SERVICE

<hr>From Our Own CorrespondentListener Request SpecialBBC World Service <a class="bodl" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ram/fooc/051231_archive.ram">Listen to the programme</a> <hr>

The following reports feature in this listener request special.

<a class="bodl" href="/1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/383985.stm">Sierra Leone: Worse than Kosovo? by Mark Doyle</a>

Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s was known for its brutality. Rebels deliberately targeted civilians, chopping off their limbs.

Mark Doyle reported on the visit of Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, to Sierra Leone.

First broadcast: 3 July, 1999<hr>

<a class="bodl" href="/1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/982962.stm">A dream of Georgian vineyards, by Robert Parsons</a>

Robert Parsons describes his chance encounter in a Georgian vineyard with Stalin's barber in 1980.

It was after this meeting that the BBC correspondent promised himself that one day he would have a vineyard of his own.

First broadcast: 21 October, 2000

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