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Foreign Correspondent : Season 26
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Air date: 14 Mar '17 - 29 episodesAustralia's leading international affairs program featuring fascinating, in-depth stories from the ABC's unrivalled network of foreign correspondents.
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List of Episodes (29)
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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1. It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me
14 Mar '17Thousands of travellers, many of them young Australians, are flocking to the Amazon to chase the highs of the ayahuasca plant. Tragically, some never return. Hamish Macdonald investigates.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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2. Venezuela Undercover
21 Mar '17It'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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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3. Line In The Sand
28 Mar '17India'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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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4. The Big Goal
04 Apr '17China is executing a masterplan to dominate world football, pumping billions of dollars into buying foreign players, coaches & entire European clubs & grooming new generations of its own young stars.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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5. Resist!
11 Apr '17It'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. Stephanie March reports.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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6. Saving The Big Blue
18 Apr '17A 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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7. The Real Great Escape
25 Apr '17Foreign Correspondent tells 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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8. The Last Eagle Hunters
02 May '17Foreign Correspondent takes a spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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9. The Home Show
09 May '17Australia is a tough place to buy a home. But we're not alone. So what are other countries doing to tackle high cost housing - and what bright ideas can we pinch from them? Hamish Macdonald hosts this special report.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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10. A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin
16 May '17In this special tribute episode to Mark Colvin Foreign Correspondent reports on his legacy as a foreign correspondent, as well as a virtual correspondent, harnessing Twitter as a portal to dive into big, breaking stories.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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11. Hunting The KGB Killers
23 May '17For 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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12. Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin
30 May '17British 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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13. Saving Wales
06 Jun '17Labour is praying for one of history's great comebacks in Britain's election. But something once unthinkable may be happening in Wales. Are the tough, working class Welsh flirting with the Tories? Philip Williams reports.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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14. Life Inside Kerobokan
13 Jun '17A Foreign Correspondent exclusive: Unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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15. Space Invaders
20 Jun '17A 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?
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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16. Through American Eyes
27 Jun '17ABC NEWS & The New York Times collaborate on a special in which New York Times National Correspondent John Eligon examines the state of race relations in Australia through the fresh eyes of a journalist from Missouri.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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17. We're Going On A Bear Hunt
04 Jul '17Tiny 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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18. Not Everybody Wants A Goat
11 Jul '17Matt Brown reports from Kenya on a radical cash experiment that challenges our deep-rooted notions of charity and may hold the seeds of a revolution in social welfare.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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19. One Love
18 Jul '17Jamaica'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. Eric Campbell reports.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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20. Manchester United
25 Jul '17Terror 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 & revealing conversations going on.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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21. Escape From Marawi
01 Aug '17Thousands 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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22. The Dome
27 Nov '17Foreign Correspondent returns for a new season. Rising sea levels threaten to flush a vast stash of highly radioactive plutonium into the Pacific Ocean. But thats not the only toxic fallout from a legacy of nuclear tests.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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23. Happy Birthday Mr. President!
04 Dec '17Vladimir 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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24. Machine Man
11 Dec '17He 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.
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Foreign Correspondent (1992)
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25. The Love Boat
18 Dec '17While 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.
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