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Why ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ is still the best of the BBC

10 April 2023

6:00 PM

10 April 2023

6:00 PM

Radio Four recently broadcast a ‘Best of’ edition of From Our Own Correspondent, marking 100 years since the birth of one of its most distinguished contributors, the late Charles Wheeler. Listening to the likes of Allan Little reporting on the fall of Mobutu, and Brian Barron in Vietnam, one is reminded that however tedious Thought for the Day and You and Yours may have become, some segments of R4 still shine.

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