From Our Own Correspondent - Cutting Through

Download Cutting Through

The duffel-coated outcast; from bomb factory to museum; icy cooperation; singing for home; greening sands. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Hugh Schofield meets a defiant - and chipper - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the outcast founder of the France's Front National; in north-west Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, Colin Freeman is shown a bomb-making factory - just the latest evidence of the violence that has dominated the region for more than a century; in the icy seas off Finland, fears of Russian 'little green men' are put aside as a Finnish icebreaker - with Horatio Clare on board - introduces a moment of peace and cooperation. Singing for home and a lost culture - Nicola Kelly hears how Nubians in Egypt are trying to reconnect with their lost homeland. And, in Oman, it's not golden sands that Antonia Quirke sees in the desert but a carpet of green.

Published on Saturday, 11th March 2017.

Available Podcasts from From Our Own Correspondent

Subscribe to From Our Own Correspondent

We are not the BBC, we only list available podcasts. To find out more about the programme including episodes available on BBC iPlayer, go to the From Our Own Correspondent webpage.