Foreign Correspondent

  • Premiered: Feb 2009
  • Episodes: 431
  • Followers: 3
  • Running
  • ABC (AU)
  • Thursday at 20
  • Documentary News

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Season 2016
2016x1
Sweden - Rosie's Journey
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Mar 15, 2016
Does gender equality free women from family violence? Campaigner Rosie Batty & reporter Sally Sara journey to gender equality heartland, Sweden, to find out. What they discover will surprise. #ForeignCorrespondent
2016x2
USA - The Zombies from Wall Street
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Mar 22, 2016
They’re back. The crazy loans that triggered the Global Financial Crisis have morphed into “zombie mortgages” and, as Paul Barry discovers, they’re cutting a swathe through some American cities.
2016x3
Germany - One Night in Cologne
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Mar 29, 2016
A mob sexual assault on young women revellers on New Year’s Eve snapped Germany’s celebrated tolerance of mass migration. What happened? Why was it hushed up? How has it changed the nation?
2016x4
Myanmar - Poppyland
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Apr 05, 2016
Liam Cochrane travels to the source of most of Australia's heroin - the vast opium fields of Myanmar, where poppy production has more than doubled in a decade. What will it take to stop the opium trade?
2016x5
Sicily - Mafia Hunter
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Apr 12, 2016
Inside the life of Pino Maniaci, the irrepressible Sicilian journalist who campaigns daily against the Mafia, defying constant threats to his life.
2016x6
Afghanistan - On Thin Ice
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Apr 19, 2016
A budding ski industry has sprung up in the remote alps of Afghanistan. But this enterprise – and the local people - face the menace of a resurgent Taliban.
2016x7
Middle East - Saudi Arabia Uncovered
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Apr 26, 2016
Undercover cameras provide a rare window into one of the world's most secretive countries, revealing how Saudi Arabia ruthlessly crushes internal dissent - and how some people are fighting back.
2016x8
Indonesia - False Economy
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May 03, 2016
Thousands of Australians book their holidays on cheap foreign airlines – but how safe are they? Troubling evidence about the safety of some budget carriers.
2016x9
Iran - Persian Jam
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May 10, 2016
Hairy hipsters, beautiful girls, funky cafes, pulsing live music - this is modern Iran, where young artists and musicians are testing the tolerance of the Islamic regime. Matt Brown reports.
2016x10
USA - Game of Drones
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May 17, 2016
A giant leap for mankind or a hazardous lurch into the unknown? A tiny Australian venture is racing to rule the skies, as drone companies vie to deliver mail, medicines & pizzas to your door.
2016x11
Japan - Into the Zone
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May 24, 2016
Mark Willacy travels to radiation-poisoned Fukushima to uncover startling new evidence about the dangers that still lurk there and the near insurmountable task of cleaning it up.
2016x12
Afghanistan - Surgical Strike
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May 31, 2016
Anatomy of a military scandal. Why did US forces attack a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Afghanistan, killing 42 people? An Aussie doctor is among the survivors who tell their chilling stories.
2016x13
UK - There'll Always Be An England
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Jun 07, 2016
Quit Europe or stay? It’s the English who hold the whip hand in the coming UK vote - and many want out. So what’s up with the Poms? Lisa Millar explores the essence of “Englishness”.
2016x14
Indonesia - Accused
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Jun 14, 2016
A puff of rumour grew into a tempest of accusations and led to the jailing of seven people for alleged child abuse at an elite international school in Jakarta. Was justice served or was it a case of moral panic?
2016x15
Indonesia - A Fleeting Freedom
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Jun 21, 2016
As supporters battle to free seven people jailed in a child abuse scandal at an elite Indonesian school, Foreign Correspondent digs into the evidence – and turns up some surprises.
2016x16
USA - Honouring Noah
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Jun 28, 2016
It’s the question posed after Orlando and every other massacre: Will America ever regulate guns? Lisa Millar revisits a mother who lost her little boy to a mass shooter and who – remarkably – sees positive signs of change.
2016x17
UK - The Reckoning
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Jul 05, 2016
It deposed tyrant Saddam Hussein but led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, lit sectarian conflict and helped the rise of ISIS. Was the Iraq war justified? Thirteen years on, a major British inquiry is set to pass judgment.
2016x18
South Africa - Freedom Riders
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Jul 12, 2016
How do you free troubled kids from the violence and poverty of South Africa’s broken townships? For starters, you teach them surfing. Sally Sara reports on the idea that’s inspiring youngsters to unleash their best.
2016x19
PNG - A Bloody Boycott
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Jul 19, 2016
Eight or more students shot, universities boycotted, a prime minister fighting for his political life. Eric Tlozek looks behind the unrest afflicting Australia’s nearest neighbour, PNG.
2016x20
China - The Labours of Mr Zhang
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Jul 26, 2016
As China’s economy stumbles, Matthew Carney taps into the anger of a growing mass of unemployed workers, and meets a labour activist who’s risking his freedom to fight for their rights.
2016x21
South Sudan - Get Up, Stand Up
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Aug 02, 2016
As the world’s newest nation teeters on the brink of civil war, the young people of South Sudan are pushing back, seeking peace through music and the power of radio.
2016x22
USA - Never Trump
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Aug 09, 2016
Hamish Macdonald goes deep inside the Republican Party’s civil war, as insurgents plot to destroy Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
2016x23
Germany - For Greater Glory
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Aug 16, 2016
With the Rio Games beset by doping controversy, Sarah Dingle reveals the tragic human cost of one of the biggest drug scandals of them all – East Germany’s state-sponsored doping program.
2016x24
Yemen - The War on Children
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Aug 23, 2016
In a playground of international powers, it’s children who are dying from bombs, bullets and hunger. Sophie McNeill and cameraman Aaron Hollett report from the Yemen war zone.
2016x25
UK - Last Whites of the East End
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Aug 30, 2016
For the first time ever, white Britons are a minority in London. This film delves into the lives of the dwindling cockney tribe of the East End as they struggle with immigration, “white flight” and loss of identity.
2016x26
China - Generation Left Behind
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Sep 06, 2016
More than 60 million Chinese children are growing up without their parents, paying the price of their country’s dash to prosperity. Matthew Carney reports on the generation left behind.
2016x27
PNG - Family Matters
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Sep 13, 2016
When award-winning Australian filmmaker Bob Connolly reunites with the characters of his acclaimed PNG Highlands trilogy, he is shocked at how their fortunes have changed.
2016x28
Scotland - Wild Things
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Sep 20, 2016
Wolves and bison roaming Germany... the lynx returning to the U.K. As Barbara Miller reports, endangered animals are being reintroduced to wild places as part of a radical and controversial idea called “re-wilding”.
2016x29
Norway - Keep Calm and Drill On
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Sep 27, 2016
Oil-rich Norway has adopted the radical goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. But, as Eric Campbell reports, there’s a catch to this green revolution.
2016x30
Turkey - The Bridge
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Oct 04, 2016
Who’ll be next? Fear grips Turkey after a failed coup and a sweeping purge set the country on a dangerous and unpredictable path. Sally Sara investigates.
2016x31 Season finale
USA - President Trump
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Nov 20, 2016
We got to know him as a showman, a wheeler-dealer and one-time rank outsider who shocked and appalled Washington’s establishment. Now he’s set to lead the free world. So who is President Trump?

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