Back tomorrow with the first episode of 2021!

The 39 FoCo guests to-date are based in 18 countries for 26 publications (plus freelancers). Check it out. We're back from hiatus next weekend and plenty of map to still fill out.

Foreign Correspondence has now reached 10,000 downloads! Thank you for listening! Thank you to my 33 guests! Thank you listeners in Australia, United States, UK, UAE and Brazil in that order! Many more episodes to come.

Latest podrec from photographer @iferdous are the chilling photos by James Nacthwey in @TIME magazine's The Opioid Diaries on the drug epidemic in America. See them here and hear Ismail discuss how the images have stuck with him on the latest episode: buff.ly/3a0hExg

Even big news stories can be quickly forgotten. But @iferdous tells on latest podcast about revisiting a Bangladeshi factory collapse (the clothing industry's deadliest ever) 2 years later and this groundbreaking Instagram project: instagram.com/afterranaplaza… afterranaplaza.com

It's not often a story you write leads the government to break into your home and steal your computer. But that happened to @AnthonyBoadle after writing about a Chilean arms deals. The break-in even made the newspaper. Hear all about it on latest episode: buff.ly/38Yeyt7

Chile was selling cluster bombs to both sides in the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, then-UPI reporter @AnthonyBoadle uncovered. The story would lead to his apartment being broken into. Hear him talk about it on latest episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

"Pinochet came along and we sat down. He shook hands with everybody, gave the women journalists kisses that they didn't really like." @AnthonyBoadle describes meeting Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (pictured) on the latest podcast. Listen here: buff.ly/38Yeyt7

As discussed on the latest episode with @Tomi_Oladipo, Kevin Carter was haunted by this photo he took during the Sudanese famine. Before that he photographed the violent final days of South African Apartheid, recorded in this book the Bang Bang Club: buff.ly/2YQAenC

Latest guest @Tomi_Oladipo carried a bleeding man to help, while other journalists stood idle and even took his picture (which appeared in NYT). It's a dilemma many journalists face. "We're humans first" he told me on the latest podcast episode. buff.ly/2FC5dKP

Around the world in 15 interviews. The Foreign Correspondence podcast spoke to journalists in 11 locations in 2019, still lots of places to explore in 2020!

Latest podrec is Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by @Kapka_Kassabova. Accdg to @KitGillet "She's a beautiful writer, but it's also powerful looking at the different sides of the border and how the relationship is and how borders affect your life." amzn.to/33ho1qM