Hello this download from the BBC is the latest edition of the Radio 4 program from our own correspondent.

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Good morning to you from Sarajevo, where the surrounding hills are just turning the light green of spring.

Hills which 20 years ago reverberated with gunfire as the war started in Bosnia.

I'm with a group of journalists from around the world who've come to

mark that anniversary remembering a conflict where everyone was a target. The city

was besieged for 44 months and Bosnian Serb troops reined down shells on schools,

libraries and hospitals.

Snipers shot pedestrians at random. People were killed as they cued for water or bread.

No electricity, little food, constant explosions.

Correspondence, camera crews and photographers took their chances alongside the citizens.

In this programme we'll be hearing from two of my BBC colleagues who, like me, were reporting

from here over three years.

First Jeremy Bowen. The first time I landed at Sarajevo

Airport I was taking over as correspondent from my BBC colleague Martin Bell. It was a

hot morning in the early summer of 1992.

The war was in its first few months, and I'd been told Martin would give me a good briefing.

I walked down the tail ramp of the Saudi Arabian Air Force transport plane that had brought a cargo of medical supplies and a few reporters into the besieged city, dodging the crew who were frantically throwing boxes of dressings and IV fluid out onto the tarmac.

The engines were still running. They kept them going because the pilot planned only to stay as long as it took to unload.

Martin was short and to the point. You'll enjoy it if you live, he told me, not breaking step as he strode up the ramp into the belly of the plane.

And I suppose he was right. In the next three years

there were some terrible moments, but the war opened up its bitter heart and drew me right in.

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