Welcome to this special download to celebrate 60 years of From Our Own Correspondent.

The BBC has made two of these birthday podcasts, compiling some memorable pieces from more recent times. In this the first edition we start with a dramatic

report from Liberia. It's 2014 at the height of the Ebola outbreak there. Gabriel Gatehouse is given the somber honor of

accompanying a nurse as she visits patients suffering from the deadly virus.

Here at home surrounded by her children and her neighbors

Loreen looks tired, almost vulnerable behind the eyes, but there's no mistaking it.

This is a tough lady, Not tough as in mean, but tough in a

I've seen it all. I can take whatever the job throws at me kind of way. But when Lorraine goes into those

Ebola infected homes, she can look terrifying and she knows it.

Behind the goggles and the mask, it's impossible to read facial expressions, taped into her yellow gloves

and white biochemical hazard suit hood up,

Lorraine looks like a creature out of a dystopian sci-fi horror film.

Lorraine is a nurse.

When she goes into an infected home, she's accompanied by a driver

and a hygienist, a young man by the name of Zach.

In their outfit, the only thing that distinguishes Zach

from the other two is that vat of chlorine strapped to his back from which he's continually spraying.

Loreine explains how she injured her back. The team is called to the home of a woman who appears

to be suffering from the advanced stages of the virus.

The patient is lying naked on a mattress stained with blood and vomit.

Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids, so this is a highly dangerous environment.

The patient is in a bad way.

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