Foreign Correspondent

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

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Season 2018
2018x1
The New Italian Job
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Jan 08, 2018
The old is new. Ditching conventional careers, a generation of hip young Italians is rediscovering the grand tradition of “Made in Italy”. Hamish Macdonald takes an exhilarating road trip to meet them.
2018x2
Redneck Revolt
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Jan 15, 2018
A year into Donald Trump's presidency resurgent white supremacists are preaching hate. Now left-wing activists are hitting back with their own shock tactics. Stephanie March goes inside a controversial radical group.
2018x3
The Baby Trade
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Jan 22, 2018
A cruel trade is tearing baby orangutans from their jungle homes to be sold abroad. Samantha Hawley gets a smuggler's story - and meets the warriors risking their lives to save the great apes from extinction.
2018x4
On Top of the World
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Jan 29, 2018
Is the world going mad when Greenlanders fight drought & brushfires & catch warm water fish? A decade after seeing a farming boom in Greenland, Eric Campbell returns to see how locals face climate change.
2018x5
On His Own Terms
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Jul 10, 2018
This is the inside story of 104-year-old activist David Goodall’s last days in Europe as he farewells family and campaigns for the right to die, up to his final hour.
2018x6
Don't Call Australia Home!
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Jul 17, 2018
Australia is detaining, cuffing and deporting more New Zealanders than any other group. Guest reporter Peter FitzSimons finds it’s riling Kiwis and straining relations across The Ditch. Is this how we treat an old mate?
2018x7
Blockchain Island
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Jul 24, 2018
A tropical paradise is racked with bankruptcy then smashed by a killer hurricane. In rides a cavalry of digital evangelists selling hi-tech revolution. Will they save the day? Eric Campbell reports.
2018x8
Bloodland
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Jul 31, 2018
Are attacks on white South African farmers aimed at terrorising them off the land? Should Australia offer them special haven, as some MPs here have suggested? Jonathan Holmes investigates.
2018x9
Tipping Point
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Aug 07, 2018
China sent Australia's recycling industry into a spin when it banned most waste imports. Now it's tackling a home-grown rubbish crisis. Bill Birtles looks at China's own war on waste and asks: is it winning?
2018x10
To Burn Or Not To Burn
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Aug 14, 2018
There's a new push in Australia to build giant incinerators to burn waste. Is this the way to go? Those clever Swedes think so. Foreign Correspondent sends War on Waste's Craig Reucassel to Sweden to investigate.
2018x11
The Village
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Aug 21, 2018
Sean Dorney got thrown out of PNG for his reporting yet he received one of its top honours. He skippered its footy team and fell for a local girl. Now suffering motor neurone disease, he makes an emotional final visit.
2018x12
Homeland
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Aug 28, 2018
Berlin was Holocaust headquarters - but for young Israeli Jews it's the paragon of cool. Eric Campbell tracks one of the odder modern migrations as he goes inside Berlin's Jewish diaspora in Homeland.
2018x13
The French Letter
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Sep 04, 2018
Is it OK for a man to proposition a woman in the street or at work? Some leading French women say yes. In Paris, guest reporter Annabel Crabb asks what happens when #MeToo rubs up against Pepe Le Pew.
2018x14
A Big Piece Of Good News
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Sep 11, 2018
A wild and spectacular stretch of southern Californian coast was threatened by malls and McMansions, until a reclusive billionaire couple arrived with the gift of a lifetime. Zoe Daniel reports.
2018x15
Leave No Dark Corner
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Sep 18, 2018
China is marrying Big Brother to Big Data. Every citizen will be watched and their behaviour scored in the most ambitious and sophisticated system of social control in history. Matthew Carney reports.
2018x16 Season finale
Eye Of The Fire
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Sep 25, 2018
It's a Greek tale of tragedy, heroism and mind-blowing incompetence. Eric Campbell tells the story of the world's deadliest bushfire since Australia's Black Saturday in 2009 - and the fury in its aftermath. (Season Final)

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