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Foreign Correspondent

Season 25 2016
TV-PG

  • 2016-03-14T13:00:00Z on ABC
  • 30m
  • 15h 30m (31 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Australia's leading international affairs program featuring fascinating, in-depth stories from the ABC's unrivalled network of foreign correspondents.

31 episodes

Season Premiere

2016-03-14T13:00:00Z

25x01 Rosie's Journey

Season Premiere

25x01 Rosie's Journey

  • 2016-03-14T13:00:00Z30m

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

25x02 The Zombies From Wall Street

  • 2016-03-21T13:00:00Z30m

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.

2016-03-28T13:00:00Z

25x03 One Night In Cologne

25x03 One Night In Cologne

  • 2016-03-28T13:00:00Z30m

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?

2016-04-04T13:30:00Z

25x04 Poppyland

25x04 Poppyland

  • 2016-04-04T13:30:00Z30m

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?

2016-04-11T13:30:00Z

25x05 Mafia Hunter

25x05 Mafia Hunter

  • 2016-04-11T13:30:00Z30m

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

2016-04-18T13:30:00Z

25x06 On Thin Ice

25x06 On Thin Ice

  • 2016-04-18T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-04-25T13:30:00Z

25x07 Saudi Arabia Uncovered

25x07 Saudi Arabia Uncovered

  • 2016-04-25T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-05-02T13:30:00Z

25x08 False Economy

25x08 False Economy

  • 2016-05-02T13:30:00Z30m

Thousands of Australians book their holidays on cheap foreign airlines - but how safe are they? This special report reveals troubling evidence about the safety of some Asian budget carriers.

2016-05-09T13:30:00Z

25x09 Persian Jam

25x09 Persian Jam

  • 2016-05-09T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-05-16T13:30:00Z

25x10 Come In Spinner

25x10 Come In Spinner

  • 2016-05-16T13:30:00Z30m

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 & pizzas to your door. Zoe Daniel reports.

2016-05-23T13:30:00Z

25x11 Into The Zone

25x11 Into The Zone

  • 2016-05-23T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-05-30T13:30:00Z

25x12 Surgical Strike

25x12 Surgical Strike

  • 2016-05-30T13:30:00Z30m

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.

25x13 There'll Always Be An England

  • 2016-06-06T13:30:00Z30m

Quit Europe or stay? It's the English who hold the whip in hand in the coming UK vote - and many want out. So what's up with the Poms? Lisa Millar explores the essence of "Englishness".

2016-06-13T13:30:00Z

25x14 Accused

25x14 Accused

  • 2016-06-13T13:30:00Z30m

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?

2016-06-20T13:30:00Z

25x15 A Fleeting Freedom

25x15 A Fleeting Freedom

  • 2016-06-20T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-06-27T13:30:00Z

25x16 Honouring Noah

25x16 Honouring Noah

  • 2016-06-27T13:30:00Z30m

It's the question posed after Orlando & 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.

2016-07-04T13:30:00Z

25x17 The Reckoning

25x17 The Reckoning

  • 2016-07-04T13:30:00Z30m

It deposed tyrant Saddam Hussein but 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.

2016-07-11T13:30:00Z

25x18 Freedom Riders

25x18 Freedom Riders

  • 2016-07-11T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-07-18T13:30:00Z

25x19 A Bloody Boycott

25x19 A Bloody Boycott

  • 2016-07-18T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-07-25T13:30:00Z

25x20 The Labours Of Mr. Zhang

25x20 The Labours Of Mr. Zhang

  • 2016-07-25T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-08-01T13:30:00Z

25x21 Get Up, Stand Up

25x21 Get Up, Stand Up

  • 2016-08-01T13:30:00Z30m

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. Sally Sara reports.

2016-08-08T13:30:00Z

25x22 Never Trump

25x22 Never Trump

  • 2016-08-08T13:30:00Z30m

Hamish Macdonald obtains exclusive access to rebel Republicans as they plot to railroad Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

2016-08-15T13:30:00Z

25x23 For Greater Glory

25x23 For Greater Glory

  • 2016-08-15T13:30:00Z30m

A generation of athletes treated like lab rats by their own country. Sarah Dingle reports on the human cost of the widespread doping programs run by the former East Germany in the 70s and 80s.

2016-08-22T13:30:00Z

25x24 The War on Children

25x24 The War on Children

  • 2016-08-22T13:30:00Z30m

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.

25x25 Last Whites of The East End

  • 2016-08-29T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-09-05T13:30:00Z

25x26 Generation Left Behind

25x26 Generation Left Behind

  • 2016-09-05T13:30:00Z30m

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

2016-09-12T13:30:00Z

25x27 Joe Leahy's Troubles

25x27 Joe Leahy's Troubles

  • 2016-09-12T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-09-19T13:30:00Z

25x28 Wild Things

25x28 Wild Things

  • 2016-09-19T13:30:00Z30m

Elephants roaming Scandinavia, wolves chasing bison in Europe - endangered animals are being reintroduced to wild places as part of a radical and controversial idea called "re-wilding".

2016-09-26T13:30:00Z

25x29 Keep Calm And Drill On

25x29 Keep Calm And Drill On

  • 2016-09-26T13:30:00Z30m

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.

2016-10-03T13:00:00Z

25x30 The Bridge

25x30 The Bridge

  • 2016-10-03T13:00:00Z30m

Who'll be next? Fear and paranoia grip Turkey after a failed coup and a payback purge, as Sally Sara reports.

Season Finale

2016-11-19T13:00:00Z

25x31 President Trump

Season Finale

25x31 President Trump

  • 2016-11-19T13:00:00Z30m

He was a showman, a wheeler-dealer & one-time rank outsider who shocked Washington's establishment. Now he's set to lead the free world. So who is President Trump? Emma Alberici reports.

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