From Our Own Correspondent - Sat, 07 Nov 2009

Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.

Prague; Budapest; Warsaw. Our correspondent takes the train on a journey which illustrates how, in some ways, Europe is more joined up than ever before.

Another is in the slums of Nairobi, trying to find out how a friend was murdered. A young soldier is baptised in the Helmand River in Afghanistan, and our hypochondriac reporter in LA has a close encounter with the US healthcare system and, he says, only just survived to tell the tale.

Broadcast on:

BBC Radio 4, 11:30am Saturday 7th November 2009

Duration:

30 minutes

Available until:

12:00am Thursday 1st January 2099

Category:

• Factual