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25 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
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.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
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.
Episode 4
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.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
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.
Episode 8
32 mins
A spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.
Episode 9
26 mins
How do we make housing more affordable? What are other countries trying - and what bright ideas might we pinch from them?
Episode 10
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.
Episode 11
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)
Episode 12
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)
Episode 13
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?
Episode 14
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.
Episode 15
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?
Episode 16
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.
Episode 17
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.
Episode 18
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.
Episode 19
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.
Episode 20
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.
Episode 21
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.
Episode 22
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.
Episode 23
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.
Episode 24
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.
Episode 25
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.