50 Years of From Our Own Correspondent
November 24th, 2007 by Steve BowbrickRoo reminded me about this From Our Own Correspondent 50th anniversary special from 2005. FOOC (that’s what they call it) is a show whose format hasn’t changed in 50 years: short reflections from foreign correspondents. No other voices - no matter how good your material is. Is there another broadcast show in the world you could say that about?
It’s a measure of how seriously the Corporation took the abduction and ultimate release of Middle East correspondent Alan Johnston that they saw fit to vary FOOC’s 50 year-old format for a one-off featuring only Johnston (still no interviews, though).
Here’s an MP3 of the anniversary show and here’s a nice page of stories from the FOOC archive. Here’s a page of background and here’s a FAQ.
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