From Our Own Correspondent

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From our own Correspondent
Other names	FOOC
Genre	Current affairs
Running time	30 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English
Home station	BBC World Service BBC Radio 4
Hosts	Kate Adie et al
Editors	Tony Grant
Producers	Andrea Protheroe
Air dates	1955 to Present
Website BBC website
Podcast BBC podcast

From Our Own Correspondent (also known as "FOOC"^[1]) is a BBC radio programme in which BBC correspondents broadcast monologues on topical current events from countries outside the UK. The programme offers the BBC's correspondents around the world a chance to give a personal account of events from the epoch-making to the inconsequential.

FOOC is broadcast on the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, and was one of the first programmes to be made available by the BBC as a podcast.

The programme was, for many years, presented by the Radio 4 and World Service announcers as part of their duties, but is now fronted by former BBC correspondents. Kate Adie presents for Radio 4; Alan Johnston for the BBC World Service.

The programme was first commissioned in 1955. A book entitled From Our Own Correspondent: A celebration of 50 years of the BBC Radio Programme^[2] was published in 2006 with a selection of the show's reports for each continent.