Crossing Continents

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Crossing Continents is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary strand focusing on foreign affairs issues. It takes listeners right to the heart of story through its on-location reporting and feature making. The programmes are character driven and offer powerful storytelling and a deep understanding of the context in which events take place no matter where they are in the world. Crossing Continents is broadcast 28 times a year on Thursdays at 11:00, with repeats on Mondays at 20:30 and is available from the BBC as a podcast as well as on iPlayer and via on-demand.{{cite web | title = Crossing Continents | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qt55 | website = bbc.co.uk | publisher = BBC}}

File:Rosie Goldsmith and-anca-toda-bbc 2055842974 o (49360939623).jpg and Anca Toada accepting the AIB award in 2007 from Mishal Husain{{Citation |last=Broadcasting) |first=AIB (Association for International |title=rosie-goldsmith-and-anca-toda-bbc_2055842974_o |date=2020-01-10 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/aib_london/49360939623/ |access-date=2022-12-10}}]]

Crossing Continents has received many awards including from the Foreign Press Association Awards; One World Media Awards; Amnesty International Awards and some Sony Awards. Its most recent success was Best Radio Award at the Amnesty International Awards 2016 for Stealing Innocence in Malawi reported by Ed Butler{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}.