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Foreign Correspondent Season 25 Episodes

31 Episodes 2015 - 2016

Episode 1

Sweden - Rosie's Journey

32 mins

Does gender equality free women from family violence? Campaigner Rosie Batty and reporter Sally Sara journey to gender equality heartland, Sweden, to find out. What they discover will surprise. #ForeignCorrespondent

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Episode 2

USA - The Zombies from Wall Street

Tue, Mar 22, 201634 mins

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.

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Episode 3

Germany - One Night in Cologne

30 mins

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?

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Episode 4

Myanmar - Poppyland

Tue, Apr 5, 201634 mins

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?

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Episode 5

Sicily - Mafia Hunter

33 mins

Inside the life of Pino Maniaci, the irrepressible Sicilian journalist who campaigns daily against the Mafia, defying constant threats to his life.

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Episode 6

Afghanistan - On Thin Ice

Tue, Apr 19, 201629 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Middle East - Saudi Arabia Uncovered

30 mins

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.

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Episode 8

Indonesia - False Economy

31 mins

Thousands of Australians book their holidays on cheap foreign airlines - but how safe are they? Troubling evidence about the safety of some budget carriers.

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Episode 9

Iran - Persian Jam

29 mins

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.

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Episode 10

USA - Game of Drones

34 mins

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 and pizzas to your door.

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Episode 11

Japan - Into the Zone

27 mins

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.

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Episode 12

Afghanistan - Surgical Strike

27 mins

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.

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Episode 13

UK - There'll Always Be An England

29 mins

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".

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Episode 14

Indonesia - Accused

25 mins

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?

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Episode 15

Indonesia - A Fleeting Freedom

25 mins

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.

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Episode 16

USA - Honouring Noah

33 mins

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.

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Episode 17

The Reckoning

30 mins

Deposed tyrant Saddam Hussein caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, lit sectarian conflict and helped the rise of ISIS. Was the Iraq war justified? Thirteen years on, a major inquiry is set to pass judgment.

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Episode 18

Freedom Riders

31 mins

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.

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Episode 19

PNG - A Bloody Boycott

27 mins

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.

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Episode 20

China - The Labours of Mr Zhang

34 mins

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.

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Episode 21

Get up Stand Up

28 mins

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.

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Episode 22

Never Trump

34 mins

Hamish Macdonald goes deep inside the Republican Party's civil war, as insurgents plot to destroy Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

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Episode 23

Germany - For Greater Glory

32 mins

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.

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Episode 24

Yemen - The War on Children

33 mins

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.

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Episode 25

UK - Last Whites of the East End

28 mins

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.

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Episode 26

Generation Left Behind

29 mins

More than 60 million Chinese children are growing up without their parents, paying the price of their country's dash to prosperity. In 2016 Matthew Carney reported on the generation left behind.

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Episode 27

PNG - Family Matters

30 mins

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.

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Episode 28

Scotland - Wild Things

28 mins

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".

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Episode 29

Norway - Keep Calm and Drill On

29 mins

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.

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Episode 30

Turkey - The Bridge

26 mins

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.

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Episode 31

USA - President Trump

27 mins

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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