Foreign Correspondent

  • Premiered: Feb 2009
  • Episodes: 431
  • Followers: 3
  • Running
  • ABC (AU)
  • Thursday at 20
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Season 2017
2017x1
Peru - It Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
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Mar 14, 2017
Thousands of travellers, many of them young Australians, are flocking to the Amazon to chase the highs of the ayahuasca plant. Tragically, some never return.
2017x2
South America - Venezuela Undercover
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Mar 21, 2017
It's got more oil than any country on the planet but its people eat garbage and gangsters rule. Defying a media ban, Eric Campbell goes undercover in the onetime socialist idyll of Venezuela.
2017x3
India - Line in the Sand
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Mar 28, 2017
India’s building boom has spawned a “sand mafia” that is plundering the environment and even killing those who get in its way. But as Samantha Hawley reports, some people refuse to be intimidated.
2017x4
China - The Big Goal
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Apr 04, 2017
China is executing a master plan to dominate world football, pumping billions of dollars into buying up foreign players, coaches and entire European clubs, and grooming new generations of its own young stars.
2017x5
USA - Resist!
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Apr 11, 2017
It’s famed as the city of peace and love, but San Francisco is digging in for a fight over President Trump’s order to expel millions of undocumented migrants.
2017x6
Spain - Saving the Big Blue
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Apr 18, 2017
A band of inspired young Australians are deploying a new weapon against a global scourge – the great gobs of plastic polluting our oceans. Europe Correspondent Lisa Millar tells how they’re doing it.
2017x7
Poland/Czech Republic - The Real Great Escape
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Apr 25, 2017
The true story behind the legendary movie The Great Escape – and the overlooked role of Australians in breaking out of the “escape proof” German POW camp.
2017x8
Mongolia - The Last Eagle Hunters
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May 02, 2017
A spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition – the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.
2017x9
Australia - The Home Show
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May 09, 2017
How do we make housing more affordable? What are other countries trying – and what bright ideas might we pinch from them?
2017x10
Australia - A Man of the World
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May 16, 2017
To many Australians he was the honeyed voice behind the ABC Radio PM microphone, the agent of reason in a fevered Twittersphere. But Mark Colvin also carved out a singular career as a .. show full overview
2017x11
UK - Hunting the KGB Killers
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May 23, 2017
For the first time, British investigators tell the inside story of the bizarre murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In a tale that's stranger than fiction, a teapot is the murder weapon. (Part 1 of 2)
2017x12
UK - Taking on the Kremlin
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May 30, 2017
British investigators continue to tell the inside story of the bizarre murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In a tale that's stranger than fiction, a teapot is the murder weapon. (Part 2 of 2)
2017x13
UK - Saving Wales
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Jun 06, 2017
Labour is praying for one of history's great comebacks in the UK Election. But something once unthinkable may be happening in tough, working class Wales. Could the Welsh be turning Tory?
2017x14
Indonesia - Life in Kerokoban
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Jun 13, 2017
Foreign Correspondent exclusive: unprecedented access inside Bali’s notorious Kerobokan jail - a riveting slice of life inside one our region’s notorious prisons.
2017x15
USA - Space Invaders
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Jun 20, 2017
A new space race is on, as tech companies rush to launch thousands of tiny satellites that will tell us more about what’s happening on our planet than ever before. But will the information be used for good, or for harm?
2017x16
Australia - Through American Eyes
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Jun 27, 2017
For 25 years Foreign Correspondent has brought the world home to Australians. Now, in a special one-hour collaboration with The New York Times, we flip the camera to get an outsider’s take on race relations here.
2017x17
Estonia - We're Going on a Bear Hunt
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Jul 04, 2017
Tiny Estonia is digging in against potential attacks from its giant neighbour Russia. And it's employing defences far more creative than guns and boots on the ground. Eric Campbell reports.
2017x18
Kenya - Not Everybody Wants a Goat
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Jul 11, 2017
Matt Brown reports on a radical cash experiment that challenges some deep-rooted notions of charity – and may hold the seeds of a revolution in social welfare.
2017x19
Jamaica - One Love
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Jul 18, 2017
Jamaica’s rich music heritage got hijacked by a vicious and violent brand of homophobia. But along came a new generation of artists who, with a little help from the Internet, are wresting it back.
2017x20
England - Manchester United
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Jul 25, 2017
Terror at a pop concert. Children die. Sirens, grief, fury. How does a city recover? Hamish Macdonald deep dives into Manchester's Muslim community to find hard & revealing conversations going on.
2017x21
The Philippines - Escape from Marawi
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Aug 01, 2017
Thousands of people have been caught up in a brutal new ISIS battleground on Australia's doorstep. One of them was ABC correspondent Adam Harvey, who took a bullet to the neck. This is his story, and theirs.
2017x22
USA - The Dome
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Nov 27, 2017
Climate change meets nuclear legacy as Mark Willacy examines the aftermath of the US nuclear tests in the Pacific in the 1940s and 50s.
2017x23
Russia - Happy Birthday Mr. President
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Dec 04, 2017
Vladimir Putin crushes opponents, but a growing army of young Russians is fighting back. Their gift to the strongman on his 65th birthday? A show of defiance and a demand to quit.
2017x24
Iraq - Machine Man
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Dec 11, 2017
He fled Saddam Hussein's brutality to become detainee #982 in an Australian refugee camp. Now Munjed al-Muderis is a world-leading surgeon giving amputees a second chance at life. Sophie McNeill tells his inspiring story.
2017x25 Season finale
China - The Love Boat
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Dec 18, 2017
While Australia says 'yes', the country with more gay people than most says an implacable 'no'. But in China, a determined group of young men and women just won't take no for an answer, as Matthew Carney reports.

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