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24 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
33 mins
While Australia ponders opening new coal fields, Germany has reached an agreement between government, mining and energy companies and unions to phase out brown coal by 2038 in return for a $60 billion injection of funds.
Episode 2
31 mins
The 'hidden kingdom' of Saudi Arabia has been mostly closed to journalists and travellers ... until now. In a glitzy PR push, the country wants to promote itself as a tourist destination. But will the notoriously repressive regime deliver on its promise of reform?
Episode 3
29 mins
Reporter Sally Sara travels to Nepal to uncover an ugly truth: many children living in the more than 500 orphanages across the country are not orphans but victims of traffickers, who prey on poor families in remote areas.
Episode 4
30 mins
An idealistic young woman who believed in a better future for her war-torn country, Hevrin Khalaf was brutally murdered just days after Turkey's invasion of north-east Syria. Who killed her and why? Yalda Hakim investigates.
Episode 5
31 mins
Sex, drugs and people smuggling. Emma Alberici braves a no-man's land near Naples to report on a ruthless new criminal group moving in on the Italian mafia. Will the Nigerian mafia be as hard to root out as the local mob?
Episode 6
25 mins
Europe's Coronavirus epicentre and a system at breaking point. Italy in lockdown with cases of infection rising by up to a thousand daily, hospitals are swamped and patients young and old are dying. Emma Alberici reports.
Episode 7
33 mins
While the world shuts down, Singapore has been open for business. Learning from the SARS outbreak, Singapore acted on its pandemic plan even before the new virus turned up. We explore the secrets to its success, and hear from critics asking if it's enough.
Episode 8
27 mins
Take an epic journey across Antarctica with a crack team of scientists on a mission to unlock earth's secret history. They plan to drill hundreds of metres deep to find atoms in a bid to illuminate our climate future.
Episode 9
29 mins
After years of war the US government and the Taliban are making a 'peace deal'. But what does the Taliban's return to power mean for Afghan women? Will migrant Afghani workers returning home from Iran spread COVID-19?
Episode 10
31 mins
With around 10,000 deaths estimated to have been caused by COVID-19, New York has become the epicentre of the US fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Foreign Correspondent's reporter Karishma Vyas, a New York resident, goes behind the lines of the city's battle to slow infections, save lives, protect its vulnerable and bury the dead.
Episode 11
30 mins
A deeply divided nation in the throes of a culture war. The Polish government and Catholic Church are forming a holy alliance to denounce Western-style liberalism. Now feminists, gay people and liberals are fighting back.
Episode 12
29 mins
Lebanon's young and old, rich and poor, Muslim, Christian and Druze have united to try and overthrow corrupt and incompetent leaders. They face hyperinflation, currency collapse, high unemployment, power cuts and COVID-19.
Episode 13
29 mins
A secret war on Australia's doorstep. Sally Sara reports from inside the escalating conflict in Indonesian-ruled West Papua. There have been protests, fighting, a security crackdown, hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
Episode 14
29 mins
India has enforced the world's biggest lockdown. When the government ordered people to stay home, millions of migrant workers left the city for their villages so they wouldn't starve. Is the cure worse than the disease?
Episode 15
30 mins
The coronavirus pandemic has hit Britain hard. More people have died than in any other European country. Carry On Covid takes a snapshot of England through the lockdown, canvassing pub owners, school principals, carers, students and experts about their fears and hopes for life after corona.
Episode 16
29 mins
She's a young doctor. He's the Russian President. He insists he's got the virus under control. She says he's lying. We follow the medic who's learned to fight without fear and the leader who's afraid of losing control.
Episode 17
29 mins
The laid back, self-proclaimed 'rainbow people' of Trinidad and Tobago are dealing with an increase in illegal migration, gang crime and piracy on-sea. Andy Park visits during peak party season, the festival of Carnival.
Episode 18
29 mins
What began as a hashtag seven years ago has transformed into a global movement for justice for black people. Sally Sara reports on #BlackLivesMatter, the force galvanising rage and grief sparked by George Floyd's death.
Episode 19
28 mins
Being a single man in China is tough. Young men face pressure to provide a family heir but finding a bride isn't easy. With 30 million more males than females, many bachelors are taking desperate measures to get hitched.
Episode 20
29 mins
Sweden is addressing COVID-19 differently. Its herd immunity strategy allows cafes, schools and gyms to remain operating, trusting citizens to do the right thing. History may well be on their side. Despite an initial spike in deaths, the country appears to be making a successful recovery.
Episode 20
29 mins
Sweden is addressing COVID-19 differently. Its herd immunity strategy allows cafes, schools and gyms to remain operating, trusting citizens to do the right thing. History may well be on their side. Despite an initial spike in deaths, the country appears to be making a successful recovery.
Episode 21
30 mins
Born in Timor, raised in Indonesia, a group of East Timorese stolen during wartime is now returning home. But will reunion with long lost family heal old wounds? This is a moving story about the power of blood and memory.
Episode 22
30 mins
Foreign Correspondent investigates North Korea's secret fishing fleets, exposing smuggling operations which make millions for leader Kim Jong Un. As they illegally fish further out to sea are they breaking UN Sanctions?
Episode 23
31 mins
Falun Gong has morphed from fringe quasi-religious group into a powerful player in America's conservative media landscape. Using social media they try to get Trump re-elected so he can continue his war of words with China.
Episode 24
31 mins
US Bureau Chief David Lipson travels through the northeast swing states to speak with voters about the coming presidential election. Will this fractured country survive the ultimate democratic stress test?