Foreign Correspondent

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

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Season 2019
2019x1
Man v Wild
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Jan 08, 2019
In India's far east, wild elephants are in deadly, daily conflict with people. Siobhan Heanue follows the clashes as roaming herds get squeezed by shrinking forests and a growing human population.
2019x2
Walk In Their Shoes
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Jan 15, 2019
What drives Tatyana, 21, heavily pregnant and with two tiny kids in tow, or 13-year-old Daniel, to make an epic trek over thousands of kilometres? Eric Campbell tells the stories of the people behind Donald Trump's wall.
2019x3
Vanilla Slice
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Jan 22, 2019
Vanilla hustlers in dusty streets. Vanilla brokers in vanilla-built palaces. Vanilla crops threatening rare lemurs' jungle homes. On a wild ride through Madagascar, Adam Harvey finds there's nothing plain about vanilla.
2019x4
Secret Sardinia
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Jan 29, 2019
It's touted as Europe's most beautiful island - but the people of Sardinia are getting sick and dying mysteriously. Fingers are pointing at secret bomb tests and war games by the world's armies, as Emma Alberici reports.
2019x5
The Promised Land
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Feb 05, 2019
Two young men escape the misery of Manus Island to forge new lives in North America. Reporter Eric Tlozek charts their progress and their pitfalls over 18 months.
2019x6
Running Amok
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Feb 12, 2019
This is no armchair spectator sport. ABC Indonesia Correspondent David Lipson ventures into the fanatical, often deadly, arena of Indonesian soccer.
2019x7
Out Of Breath
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Feb 19, 2019
As Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ready for their late February summit, we take a unique and inspiring journey into rural North Korea where local doctors join with international volunteers to heal the sick.
2019x8
Climate Hackers
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Feb 26, 2019
They sound like science fiction, but radical remedies to slow global warming are on the way. Eric Campbell goes in search of crazy brave ideas to save the world.
2019x9
The Oasis
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Mar 05, 2019
A radical experiment in democracy and women's rights is under way in the old badlands of Islamic State. But as Yaara Bou Melhem reports, it could be crushed in an instant.
2019x10
Saving Venice
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Mar 12, 2019
The "Floating City" is sinking under rising seas and the weight of mass tourism. Now Venice's residents are fighting to reclaim it, as Samantha Hawley reports.
2019x11
Opioid America
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Mar 19, 2019
A secretive billionaire family pushes a pill that triggers more deaths than guns or car crashes. From backwoods Appalachia to hi tech San Francisco, Conor Duffy investigates America's opioid scourge.
2019x12
The Battle For Rio
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Apr 09, 2019
Democrat or despot? Brazil's new strongman is cracking down on rampant crime - but many fear the "Trump of the Tropics" is turning his country into a police state. Sally Sara reports.
2019x13
High Steaks
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Aug 06, 2019
In the season return, Craig Reucassel investigates the future of food, where plant and animal cell-based meat substitutes challenge America's multi-billion-dollar meat industry.
2019x14
Taiwan - Death Metal Diplomacy
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Aug 13, 2019
Is Taiwan the next flashpoint? As Hong Kong protesters take to the street to fight the rising power of China, a younger generation of Taiwanese also confront increasingly hardline Chinese attitudes. Bill Birtles reports.
2019x15
Motherland - Ukraine
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Aug 20, 2019
Ukraine is the new 'go-to' destination for couples desperate to be parents. But Samantha Hawley uncovers an industry out of control that exploits surrogate mothers and leaves babies abandoned.
2019x16
Homage To Barcelona
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Aug 27, 2019
Reporter Eric Campbell was living in Barcelona when the Spanish state cracked down on its 2017 independence vote, clubbing voters and firing rubber bullets. He explores how this cultural capital suddenly became a warzone.
2019x17
Fallout: The Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster
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Sep 03, 2019
The site of the world's worst nuclear accident Chernobyl is now a tourist destination. Linton Besser visits the exclusion zone to see the devastation of nuclear meltdown, government-sanctioned cover-up and radiation sickness.
2019x18
Mother Courage - Rwanda
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Sep 10, 2019
The inspirational women of Rwanda who have turned pain into hope. They lived through one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century but the power of love and family saved them.
2019x19
Testing Times
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Sep 17, 2019
As Australia grapples with a spate of deaths at music festivals, triple j presenter Tom Tilley heads to Europe to see drug testing in action. But is it the only way to keep people safe?
2019x20
Secrets and Lies
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Sep 24, 2019
It's been an open secret for years, Catholic priests fathering children in breach of their vows. After suffering in silence and shame those children are speaking out, demanding answers and recognition from Rome.
2019x21
Climate Kids
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Oct 01, 2019
They're young, passionate and want to save the planet. We profile three young activists inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg to mobilise the public and demand action on global warming with climate strikes and at the UN.
2019x22
The State of Denmark
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Oct 08, 2019
'What is Danish?' asks comedian Ellie Jokar. Born in Iran, now a Dane, Ellie struggles to understand why her once friendly country has pulled up the welcome mat. Hamish Macdonald explores a nation with an identity crisis.
2019x23
Insectageddon
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Oct 15, 2019
Foreign Correspondent travels to Europe to investigate the decline of the insect population, threatening entire ecosystems. Reporter Eric Campbell discovers the causes and the steps in place to reverse the decline.
2019x24 Season finale
At The Edge Of The Earth - Alaska
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Oct 22, 2019
Alaska's indigenous tribes are fiercely proud of their pristine land and traditions, but as Trump pushes to open up its protected wilderness for oil exploration, Zoe Daniel asks could it be under threat?

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