• Air date: 07 Feb '12 25 episodes
      Australia's leading international affairs program featuring fascinating, in-depth stories from the ABC's unrivalled network of foreign correspondents.
  • List of Episodes (25)
    • 1. The Ka-Ching Dynasty

      07 Feb '12
      While other countries are in panic mode over their stagnant economies, in China they’re making money and flaunting it.
    • 2. Girlpower!

      14 Feb '12
      Even in war-weary Afghanistan, shocking images of a brutalised teenager only increased another young woman's determination to bring about change.
    • 3. Bavarian Fairy Tale

      21 Feb '12
      If Europe’s going down the gurgler why are the good burghers of Bavaria singing, dancing, and toasting their good fortune?
    • 4. The Almighty's Dollar

      28 Feb '12
      If life’s two certainties are death and taxes then who blinks first in a face-off between God and The Taxman?
    • 5. Meet the Frackers

      06 Mar '12
      As the US tries to lessen its dependence on foreign oil, it’s turning instead to this controversial home-grown energy source.
    • 6. Building the Perfect Bug

      13 Mar '12
      Bird flu is already aggressively lethal so why did researchers engineer a super strain that can be contracted far more easily?
    • 7. The Road to Mandalay

      20 Mar '12
      Relaxing of restrictions to foreign journalists has allowed far easier access to people and places in this beautiful country.
    • 8. The Real Great Escape

      15 May '12
      50 years after the movie The Great Escape was released, based on a true WWII story, journalist Louise Williams uncovers a few flaws.
    • 9. They Paved Paradise

      22 May '12
      With a steady growth in tourism, many Balinese locals are increasingly angry about the environmental and cultural impact.
    • 10. Miss Tibet

      29 May '12
      Miss Tibet - complete with bikinis & evening gowns. Is it all about liberation & empowerment or a cynical exercise in exploitation?
    • 11. England Swings

      05 Jun '12
      In all the excitement generated by the London Olympics, Philip Williams finds there are some who are less than enthusiastic.
    • 12. That was Then This is Now

      19 Jun '12
      Foreign Correspondent celebrates 20 years of international television reporting as reporters reflect on their most memorable moments.
    • 13. Globesity

      19 Jun '12
      Once a rich country's problem, obesity has now taken hold in poor and emerging countries where many have little idea of the danger.
    • 14. Wired Korea

      24 Jul '12
      In North & South Korea, a spectacular collision of real & virtual worlds - and the consequences are potentially earth shattering.
    • 15. The Wandering Souls

      31 Jul '12
      For 43 years this Vietnam veteran carried trauma, guilt – and a box of battlefield mementos. Now it's time to let them all go.
    • 16. Two Hearts

      07 Aug '12
      Together their future was very uncertain. Separated, they had better chance of a normal life... but there's always a risk.
    • 17. Revenge of the Nerds

      21 Aug '12
      With a new idea and a lot of luck, it's possible to earn millions in a very short time.
    • 18. Lords of the Ring

      28 Aug '12
      Both World Champions, these brothers are about to fight one of the biggest bouts of their careers - in the political arena.
    • 19. Rise of the Machines

      04 Sep '12
      As swarms of private and government drones gather in the skies, what's the risk to our personal security and privacy?
    • 20. Tick, Tick, Boom!

      04 Sep '12
      Israel has been running two very different operations aimed at stopping Iran developing nuclear weapons. One is very public, the other undercover. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presses Israel’s allies to intensify action against Iran and even threatens his own armed strike if Iran crosses a red line of nuclear development, Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is taking a more personal approach. It’s been training its sights on the brains within Iran’s atomic program.
    • 21. Adrenalin Nation

      23 Oct '12
      The Land of the Long White Cloud is now the Land of the Long Loud Scream. In a spectacularly successful marketing makeover, New Zealand has transformed itself into a magnet for thrill-seekers from all around the world, turning adrenalin into a billion dollar rush. If you want to throw yourself off things or out of things or into things that in turn roll, slide or fall from breathtaking heights – all in a setting of spectacular scenery - then this is the destination. But when things go wrong is N
    • 23. Goin' Up Around the Bend - Truth, Votes and the American Way

      06 Nov '12
      The young Tallahassee tailgaters party in the football arena carpark, slugging rocket fuel from jars and chanting in unison: ‘No Obama! No Obama!’ Across town, the party faithful watching the Democrat National Convention are just as exuberant and emphatic. ‘What’s the biggest misconception about Barack Obama?’ one is asked. ‘Misconception? I can’t think of a single negative thing about him!’ One patch of Florida; two polarised views. Welcome to the swingingest election hotspot in America with th
    • 24. The Odyssey

      13 Nov '12
      We’ve seen and heard a great deal about the economic apocalypse thumping Greece. Violent protests, enormous pain, staggering job losses, lives destroyed. But that’s not the complete picture. Meet the Greeks turning national disaster into personal triumph. They’re not sitting around under the thunderheads of austerity waiting for the economy to turn and the sun to shine again. They’re taking matters into their own hands.
    • 25. The Big Dig

      20 Nov '12
      It once commanded an empire that occupied an enormous swathe of the world, now the world wants a big slice of Mongolia. It’s boomtime in this isolated and undeveloped nation as global miners are racing to stake their claims on vast riches that rival, perhaps even eclipse Australia’s resources bounty. So, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em and local mining giant Rio Tinto and developer Leighton are right in the thick of the action. But profound questions are being raised about the impact on environme
    • 26. We Will Not Be Moved

      27 Nov '12
      One day you’ve got a roof over your head and you’re doing your best to feed, raise and protect your family with very little at all. The next day you’re huddled in the pouring rain wondering what happened to the shack you called a home. That’s the parlous, unpredictable reality for thousands of Cambodia’s poor, forcibly evicted from their houses in the name of progress. The country’s march to modernity is coming at a profound human cost as aggressive developers, corrupt officials and bulldozers r