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Four Corners : Season 54
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Air date: 03 Feb '14 - 44 episodesFour Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Broadcast on ABC1 in Australia, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011. Founding producer Robert Raymond and his successor Allan Ashbolt did much to set the ongoing tone of the program. Based on the Panorama concept, the program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism, and broken many high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show's epoch-making 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales.
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List of Episodes (44)
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1. This Trucking Life
03 Feb '14Long haul truckies say they're being pushed to the brink by big business and government with lethal results.
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2. Stone Cold Justice
18 Feb '14Violence is part of life in the Middle East but have children now become a new target for Israeli security forces? A special investigation by journalist John Lyons.
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3. Inside North Korea
17 Feb '14Follows the journeys of a small group of North Korean secret film-makers, revealing what life is really like under the new leader Kim Jong Un.
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4. Little Boy Lost
24 Feb '14A little boy lost and a family's search for answers; how did the police get the investigation so wrong? Geoff Thompson reports.
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5. Tales from the Organ Trade
03 Mar '14Faced with death, would you illegally pay for a heart, lungs or kidney? Thousands do and the international black market is booming.
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6. The Boy with the Henna Tattoo
10 Mar '14The inside story of an investigation to rescue an Australian child from an international paedophile ring. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
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7. Drawing the Line
17 Mar '14An investigation of the intelligence operation that's caused friction in Australia's relationship with East Timor. Marian Wilkinson reports.
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8. The Dancing Shiva
24 Mar '13Quentin McDermott investigates the scandal that's engulfing the National Gallery. Were our finest art experts duped?
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9. How China Fooled the World
31 Mar '13An investigation of the Chinese debt binge that's left economists holding their breath. What will be the impact on Australia?
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10. A Lender of Last Resort
07 Apr '14How does a mortgage broker, whose work has prompted multiple complaints and is the subject of ongoing police investigation, continue to operate? Linton Besser reports on Australia's shadowy world of unregulated lending.
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11. End of the Road
14 Apr '14The car manufacturing industry is on the way out, so what's the real impact? Stephen Long reports.
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12. Day of Days
21 Apr '14Four Corners commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
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13. The Manus Solution
28 Apr '14Geoff Thompson puts together the most comprehensive account yet of what took place at The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in February 2014.
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14. Banking Bad
05 May '14Putting the spotlight on a top bank's financial planners. Was it bad advice or just greed? Adele Ferguson reports.
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15. Streets of Shame
12 May '14A shocking insight into the sexual exploitation of many thousands of poor and vulnerable children in Pakistan, one of the world's most important Muslim nations.
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16. Lost: MH370
19 May '14How did Malaysian authorities lose a plane, search in the wrong place and ignore significant evidence for so long? Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports on the Mystery of Flight MH370.
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17. The Walking Wounded
26 May '14It was a high-tech hip replacement that failed. The company tried to cover it up. Now they're exposed. Quentin McDermott reports.
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18. The Pope's Revolution
02 Jun '14Can Pope Francis reform a Church weighed down by scandal and controversy?
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19. Chamber of Horrors
09 Jun '14With ample evidence of sex abuse in the military, why don't the top brass deal with the abusers? Michael Brissenden reports.
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20. In the Shadow of the Stadiums
16 Jun '14Brazil splurged billions to host the soccer World Cup while many live a life of poverty and crime. What price the "beautiful game?"
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21. Democracy for Sale
23 Jun '14Democracy is a powerful concept. But it doesn't come cheap. Reporter Linton Besser delves inside the investigation that blew the lid on corruption within Australia's major political parties.
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22. Rupert, Rebekah and Andy
30 Jun '14She was the queen of the British tabloids, a faithful and trusted servant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. He was the top aide to the British Prime Minister. But for the past eight months, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been the focus of one of the longest-running criminal trials in British history.
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23. Power to the People
07 Jul '14While the rest of the world moves to embrace renewable energy why is Australia drawing back? Four Corners documents the revolution in power generation taking place across the globe.
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24. Rosie's Story
15 Jul '14It was a crime that left Australians horrified. The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Luke's mother Rosie tells her story.
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25. Generation Like
21 Jul '14Thanks to social media, today's teenagers are able to interact directly with their culture and their heroes, dispensing approval to music, videos, food and clothes, as well as each other. They say that's empowering because they can deliver a verdict instantly. But is this empowerment or a new form of slavery? And are teenagers being manipulated by big corporations and the marketing moguls who see social media as the ultimate marketing tool?(Australia, English)
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