Foreign Correspondent

  • Premiered: Feb 2009
  • Episodes: 431
  • Followers: 3
  • Running
  • ABC (AU)
  • Thursday at 20
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Season 2015
2015x1
Middle East/Australia - Pitch Battle
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Apr 14, 2015
For the first time ever Palestine's football team qualified for the Asian Cup, played in Australia. We follow the highs and lows as players are caught up in a brutal war at home and dramas on and off the pitch in Australia.
2015x2
Vietnam - Are You My Mother?
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Apr 21, 2015
Imagine trying to find your identity among more than 90-million faces in Vietnam. Sophie English was born at the height of the conflict in Vietnam, and was one of the first war babies to .. show full overview
2015x3
U.K. - The Boris Mission
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Apr 28, 2015
For many, the golden haired Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is almost a cartoon character. He's made his mark through the "Boris" brand - an unconventional, dishevelled, funny .. show full overview
2015x4
Antarctica - Southern Exposure
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May 05, 2015
Every summer its numbers swell as some of the world's top international scientists from more than a dozen countries travel to research bases dotted across King George Island. And whether .. show full overview
2015x5
Syria - Brides of ISIS
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May 19, 2015
They're mostly young, educated and middle class - yet more than 60 British women and girls have chosen to move to Syria and live in the so called "Islamic State", under a deeply .. show full overview
2015x6
India - Let There Be Light
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May 26, 2015
An entrepreneurial culture is flourishing in the grim slums of India. Lives are being changed by an Australian enterprise that provides jobs as well as clean energy to some of the .. show full overview
2015x7
Qatar - Slaves to the Beautiful Game
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Jun 02, 2015
Qatar's triumphant bid for the 2022 World Cup is under fire not just because of the FIFA corruption scandal. Migrant workers now building its multi-billion dollar facilities endure wretched living & working conditions.
2015x8
Syria - The Cost of Living
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Jun 09, 2015
A French photo-journalist tells how he survived 10 months as a hostage of Islamic State terrorists while five of his fellow captives were taken away and beheaded. Should ransoms have been paid to save their lives?
2015x9
South Korea - Education Gangnam Style
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Jun 16, 2015
Once shackled by mass illiteracy, South Korea now tops global academic league tables. But as North Asia Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world.
2015x10
India - About A Boy
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Jun 23, 2015
About a Boy... Foreign Correspondent goes in search of a baby boy who was born via surrogacy in India but left behind by his Australian parents.
2015x11
The Philippines - Saving Mary Jane
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Jul 07, 2015
With just minutes to spare, mother-of-two Mary Jane Veloso escaped the firing squad that executed Australia's Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Find out how she was saved and whether she will make it home to her children.
2015x12
Greece - Odyssey
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Jul 14, 2015
Every night they land in flimsy rubber boats, trudging ashore drenched and exhausted. It’s a short trip across the sea from Turkey to Kos, in easternmost Greece, but for these people the .. show full overview
2015x13
Ireland - The Emerald Aisle
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Jul 21, 2015
While Australia agonises over whether to let same sex couples marry, conservative Ireland has come out with a resounding "I do". Sally Sara journeys across Ireland to discover why this .. show full overview
2015x14
Egypt/Australia - Peter Greste: My Fight for Freedom (1)
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Jul 28, 2015
“So our arrest is not a mistake, and as a journalist this IS my battle. I can no longer pretend it’ll go away by keeping quiet and crossing my fingers.” - Peter Greste’s first letter .. show full overview
2015x15
Egypt/Australia - Peter Greste: The Homecoming (2)
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Aug 04, 2015
“Welcome home and welcome to paradise” – Juris Greste to his son Peter With the beaming grin of a newly freed man, Peter Greste strode from his plane into the arms of his family. Hugs, .. show full overview
2015x16
China - Tales of a City
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Aug 11, 2015
A diving stock market, a wobbling economy and a new security crackdown: where is China heading? Tapping into voices you’ve never heard, Stephen McDonell reports on the changing face of the superpower.
2015x17
Cuba - Neighbours
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Aug 18, 2015
In Havana, you can feel the change in the air. For the first time in decades, young Cubans aren’t just hoping for a better future. They’re sure it’s coming. With the US poised to lift .. show full overview
2015x18
Spain - Yes We Can
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Aug 25, 2015
Sally Sara meets the grass roots, social media-driven activists who are turning politics on its head in Spain. Now that they've got the power, what will they do with it?
2015x19
USA - The Trump Show
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Sep 01, 2015
Donald Trump was supposed to crash and burn but he is streaking ahead of his rivals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Emma Alberici asks why the bombastic billionaire is defying the pundits.
2015x20
India - Tashi and the Monk
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Sep 08, 2015
In the foothills of the Himalayas, a brave social experiment is taking place. Eight years ago a former Buddhist monk set up a safe haven for abandoned and troubled children, providing a .. show full overview
2015x21
PNG - Doctor Dim Dim
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Sep 15, 2015
Carpenter Barry Kirby's life turned upside down when he chanced upon a young woman dying on a bush road. The Australian tradie became a doctor with a mission: saving women's lives in the wilds of Papua New Guinea.
2015x22
Ukraine - Republic of Nowhere
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Sep 22, 2015
It's the war the world forgot. At Europe's side door nearly 8000 people have been killed and 1.5 million have fled their homes. Correspondent Matt Brown reports from devastated eastern Ukraine.
2015x23
Global - How to Save the World
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Nov 30, 2015
As key climate talks get under way in Paris, Eric Campbell explores potential solutions to global warming – from thermal power in Costa Rican jungles to giant North Sea wind farms and California’s solar start-ups.
2015x24
USA - Black Lives Matter
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Dec 07, 2015
Sally Sara takes to the streets of Baltimore and Chicago to investigate a reawakened civil rights movement that’s fighting to stop the killing of black Americans.
2015x25
China - Our Man in China
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Dec 14, 2015
In his farewell report for the ABC, correspondent Stephen McDonell looks at the spectacular changes that have swept China during his 10 years there – and the untold sequels to some of the big stories he’s covered.
2015x26 Season finale
Global - Digital Disruption
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Dec 21, 2015
In an age when everyone has a phone camera and the internet links billions of people anywhere, anytime – has the foreign correspondent become redundant? And does the information blizzard make us better informed?

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