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Four Corners

Season 1964 1964
TV-PG

  • 1964-05-31T10:30:00Z on ABC
  • 1h
  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Australia's premier television current affairs program. Four Corners has been part of the national story since 1961, exposing scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate and confronting taboos.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

1964-05-31T10:30:00Z

1964x01 Surfing Story

Season Premiere

1964x01 Surfing Story

  • 1964-05-31T10:30:00Z1h

John Penlington reports on Australia's surf culture, its impact on surf-lifesaving clubs and life in general.

1964-06-21T10:30:00Z

1964x02 Hiroshima Story

1964x02 Hiroshima Story

  • 1964-06-21T10:30:00Z1h

The 'Australian Reich' is a firm defender of their belief in Adolf Hitler as the patron saint of the white race.

The party consists of over 250 members, however only a dozen were prepared to take part in filming for the program.

John Penlington goes to Western Australia to report on the hanging of Eric Edgar Cooke.

After questions were raised by Labor politician Harry May, ABC management decide that this story on capital punishment cannot be shown, and issues a statement saying that the ABC has "no intention whatsoever of running a story on capital punishment".

Penlington and Allan Ashbolt publicly confirm their intention to do a story on Cooke with the intention to broadcast on October 24.

John Penlington is suspended and Executive Producer Allan Ashbolt never returns to Four Corners.

Watch the unseen segment and read about the controversies surrounding this story.

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