I have no photos of my own from my 1988 visits to Kosovo and the then-wider-Yugoslavia, but this is one BBC radio feature, recorded for Radio Four’s International Assignment with the eccentrically wonderful Adam Raphael, of which I am perhaps most proud.

It’s nearly 30 minutes long, and a challenging listen. Feature starts at 2’10”, after quaintly dated-sounding news bulletin, including references to Pinochet.

Of its time, and going on once we get under way to quote Serbian author and later politician Vuk Draskovic warning Europe that it could, if it wished, allow then-united Yugoslavia to become a European Lebanon, disintegrating into civil war. A self-fulfilling prophecy.

You can also hear Serbian nationalists in Nis, in the south of the country, calling for weapons – “hochemu oruzhiye” – to fight the Albanians they accused of “genocide” against the Serbs in that predominantly ethnic Albanian province of what was then the constituent Yugoslav republic of Serbia.

It was a prescient feature, recorded on one of my regular visits to Yugoslavia while Diplomatic Correspondent at the World Service, although none of us at the time could have imagined just how terrible the violence would be.

After all, just four years earlier, I had covered the 1984 Winter Olympics in nearby Sarajevo, a celebration of unity and goodwill, with the British ice-dancers Torville and Dean memorably scoring perfect 8s in their gold-medal winning performance of Bolero.

I didn’t see them win the gold itself, but was greatly moved to watch them in practice.

Eight years later, Sarajevo and the Bosnia around it descended into the terror of ethnic cleansing worse even than the worst excesses of Lebanon summoned up by Draskovic in our Belgrade interview in 1988.