Colin Freeman

Why ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ is still the best of the BBC

Charles Wheeler, who was the BBC’s longest-serving foreign correspondent (Photo: BBC)
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Colin Freeman

Colin Freeman is former chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph and author of ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot.’

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