Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,25 Aug 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 25/08/2012

From Our Own Correspondent

Available for over a year

Pascale Harter introduces the pick of this week's dispatches from correspondents, reporters and writers around the world. In this edition: ORLA GUERIN asks some of Syria's Kurds what they'd like to see on a post-Assad map of the Middle East; TAMASIN FORD finds that many people in Sierra Leone have no problem being both Christian AND Muslim - simultaneously; CHRISTIAN FRASIER explores the ills and the hopes of the 'no go' suburbs outside many cities in France; JENNIFER PAK explains why orang utans and palm oil don't mix in Malaysia; and DANIEL NASAW recounts the pitfalls (and the pratfalls) of being an American trying to learn Farsi, the main language of Iran.

Programme Website
More episodes