Foreign Correspondent
TV-PG
7.7
1992
Documentary
, News
Australia's leading international affairs program featuring fascinating, in-depth stories from the ABC's unrivalled network of foreign correspondents.
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Episode 26 : Digital Disruption
December. 21,2015
In the final Foreign Correspondent for 2015, Mark Corcoran reveals how the digital revolution is changing the way we get the news from around the world.
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Episode 25 : Our Man In China
December. 14,2015
After 10 years as the ABC's China Correspondent, Stephen McDonell looks back at the big stories of his time based in Beijing and asks where the country is headed.
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Episode 24 : #BlackLivesMatter
December. 07,2015
In a Foreign Correspondent special, Sally Sara takes to the streets of Baltimore & Chicago to investigate a reawakened civil rights movement that's fighting to stop the killing of black Americans.
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Episode 23 : How To Save the World
November. 30,2015
As key climate talks start in Paris, Eric Campbell looks at potential solutions to global warming - from Costa Rica's thermal power to giant North Sea wind farms and California's solar start ups.
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Episode 22 : Ukraine - Republic Of Nowhere
September. 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.
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Episode 21 : PNG - Doctor Dim Dim
September. 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.
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Episode 20 : India - Tashi And The Monk
September. 08,2015
The inspirational story of a former Buddhist monk and the home he built for abandoned children in the Himalayan foothills. His newest charge, a traumatised little girl called Tashi, is his toughest challenge so far.
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Episode 19 : USA - The Trump Show
September. 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.
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Episode 18 : Spain - Yes We Can
August. 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?
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Episode 17 : Cuba - Neighbours
August. 18,2015
With the US poised to lift its 55 year trade embargo, reporter Eric Campbell tells the remarkable story of how one American farming family befriended Fidel Castro and helped end Cuba's isolation.
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Episode 16 : China - Tales Of A City
August. 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.
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Episode 15 : Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 2)
August. 04,2015
Peter Greste's own story of his joyful homecoming after 400 days in an Egyptian jail - and the tense build-up to the final verdict on terrorism charges.
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Episode 14 : Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 1)
July. 28,2015
For the first time, journalist Peter Greste reports his own story: the trumped up terrorism charges, his 400 days in Egyptian jails, and the long hard fight for freedom of speech.
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Episode 13 : The Emerald Aisle
July. 21,2015
Sally Sara journeys across Ireland to discover why this conservative Catholic country became the first in the world to say yes to gay marriage in a popular vote.
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Episode 12 : Greece - Odyssey
July. 14,2015
Greece is broke but now has to deal with a flood of foreign boat people fleeing war and poverty. From the picture postcard island of Kos, Barbara Miller reports on the great migration.
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Episode 11 : Saving Mary Jane
July. 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.
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Episode 10 : India - About A Boy
June. 23,2015
Foreign Correspondent goes in search of a baby boy who was born via surrogacy in India but left behind by his Australian parents. Samantha Hawley reports.
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Episode 9 : South Korea - Education Gangnam Style
June. 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.
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Episode 8 : The Cost Of Living
June. 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.
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Episode 7 : Slaves To The Beautiful Game
June. 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.
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Episode 6 : India - Let There Be Light
May. 26,2015
In the slums of India, lives are being changed by an Australian enterprise providing jobs & clean energy to some of the poorest people on the planet. South Asia correspondent Stephanie March reports.
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Episode 5 : Syria - Brides Of ISIS
May. 19,2015
Hundreds of young Western educated women are running away from home to marry radical Islamic fighters and live in the self declared "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq. We go into the secret world of the online recruiters.
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Episode 4 : Antarctica - Southern Exposure
May. 05,2015
Penguins and partying, Foreign Correspondent travels to Antarctica, the world's biggest natural laboratory, but it's not all work and no play for the dedicated scientific community who live there. Eric Campbell reports.
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Episode 3 : The Boris Mission
April. 28,2015
An exclusive with the Mayor of London - Boris Johnson. Philip Williams follows the star of British politics across London and asks: What challenges will he face if he gets the top job of Prime Minister?
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Episode 2 : Vietnam - Are You My Mother?
April. 21,2015
Foreign Correspondent follows the remarkable journey of a Vietnamese adoptee as she desperately searches for the mother she lost nearly 40 years ago.
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