Series 26

Series 26

2017-03-14
29 Episodes

Episodes

It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me

1. It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me

2017-03-14

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Thousands 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.

Venezuela Undercover

2. Venezuela Undercover

2017-03-21

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It'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.

Line In The Sand

3. Line In The Sand

2017-03-28

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India'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.

The Big Goal

4. The Big Goal

2017-04-04

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China 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.

Resist!

5. Resist!

2017-04-11

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It'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.

Saving The Big Blue

6. Saving The Big Blue

2017-04-18

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A 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.

The Real Great Escape

7. The Real Great Escape

2017-04-25

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Foreign 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.

The Last Eagle Hunters

8. The Last Eagle Hunters

2017-05-02

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Foreign Correspondent takes a spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.

The Home Show

9. The Home Show

2017-05-09

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Australia 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.

A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin

10. A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin

2017-05-16

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In 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.

Hunting The KGB Killers

11. Hunting The KGB Killers

2017-05-23

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For 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.

Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin

12. Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin

2017-05-30

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British 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.

Saving Wales

13. Saving Wales

2017-06-06

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Labour 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.

Life Inside Kerobokan

14. Life Inside Kerobokan

2017-06-13

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A Foreign Correspondent exclusive: Unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail.

Space Invaders

15. Space Invaders

2017-06-20

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A 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?

Through American Eyes

16. Through American Eyes

2017-06-27

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ABC 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.

We're Going On A Bear Hunt

17. We're Going On A Bear Hunt

2017-07-04

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Tiny 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.

Not Everybody Wants A Goat

18. Not Everybody Wants A Goat

2017-07-11

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Matt 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.

One Love

19. One Love

2017-07-18

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Jamaica'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.

Manchester United

20. Manchester United

2017-07-25

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Terror 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.

Escape From Marawi

21. Escape From Marawi

2017-08-01

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Thousands 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.

The Dome

22. The Dome

2017-11-27

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Foreign 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.

Happy Birthday Mr. President!

23. Happy Birthday Mr. President!

2017-12-04

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Vladimir 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.

Machine Man

24. Machine Man

2017-12-11

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He 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.

The Love Boat

25. The Love Boat

2017-12-18

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While 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.

The New Italian Job

26. The New Italian Job

2018-01-08

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The old is new. Ditching conventional careers, a generation of hip young Italians is rediscovering the grand tradition of "Made in Italy". Hamish Macdonald takes an exhilarating road trip to meet them.

Redneck Revolt

27. Redneck Revolt

2018-01-15

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A year into Donald Trump's presidency resurgent white supremacists are preaching hate. Now left-wing activists are hitting back with their own shock tactics. Stephanie March goes inside a controversial radical group.

The Baby Trade

28. The Baby Trade

2018-01-22

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A cruel trade is tearing baby orangutans from their jungle homes to be sold abroad. Samantha Hawley gets a smuggler's story - and meets the warriors risking their lives to save the great apes from extinction.

On Top Of The World

29. On Top Of The World

2018-01-29

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Is the world going mad when Greenlanders fight drought & brushfires & catch warm water fish? A decade after seeing a farming boom in Greenland, Eric Campbell returns to see how locals face climate change.