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Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episodes

25 Episodes 2017 - 2017

Episode 1

It doesn't happen to people like me

29 mins

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.

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Episode 2

South America - Venezuela Undercover

33 mins

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.

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Episode 3

India - Line in the Sand

32 mins

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.

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Episode 4

China - The Big Goal

27 mins

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.

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Episode 5

USA - Resist!

25 mins

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.

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Episode 6

Spain - Saving the Big Blue

27 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Poland/Czech Republic - The Real Great Escape

28 mins

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.

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Episode 8

Mongolia - The Last Eagle Hunters

32 mins

A spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.

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Episode 9

Australia - The Home Show

26 mins

How do we make housing more affordable? What are other countries trying - and what bright ideas might we pinch from them?

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Episode 10

Australia - A Man of the World

34 mins

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 foreign correspondent roaming the world's power centres and trouble spots.

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Episode 11

UK - Hunting the KGB Killers

30 mins

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)

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Episode 12

UK - Taking on the Kremlin

32 mins

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)

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Episode 13

UK - Saving Wales

27 mins

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?

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Episode 14

Indonesia - Life in Kerokoban

33 mins

Foreign Correspondent exclusive: unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail - a riveting slice of life inside one our region's notorious prisons.

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Episode 15

USA - Space Invaders

26 mins

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?

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Episode 16

Through American Eyes

30 mins

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.

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Episode 17

Estonia - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

27 mins

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.

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Episode 18

Kenya - Not Everybody Wants a Goat

26 mins

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.

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Episode 19

Jamaica - One Love

27 mins

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.

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Episode 20

England - Manchester United

31 mins

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 and revealing conversations going on.

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Episode 21

The Philippines - Escape from Marawi

28 mins

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.

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Episode 22

The Dome

32 mins

Climate change meets nuclear legacy as Mark Willacy examines the aftermath of the US nuclear tests in the Pacific in the 1940s and 50s.

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Episode 23

Happy Birthday Mr President

44 mins

Vladimir Putin crushes opponents, but a growing army of young Russians are fighting back. Their gift to the strongman on his 65th birthday? A show of defiance and a demand to quit. Eric Campbell reports.

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Episode 24

Machine Man

43 mins

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.

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Episode 25

The Love Boat

28 mins

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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