Foreign Correspondent

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Season 24

Episodes

1. Pitch Battle
Apr 14, 2015
Episode 1

For the first time ever Palestine's football team qualified for the Asian Cup, played in Australia. We follow the highs and lows as players are caught up in a brutal war at home and dramas on and off the pitch in Australia.

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2. Vietnam - Are You My Mother?
Apr 21, 2015
Episode 2

Foreign Correspondent follows the remarkable journey of a Vietnamese adoptee as she desperately searches for the mother she lost nearly 40 years ago.

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3. The Boris Mission
Apr 28, 2015
Episode 3

An exclusive with the Mayor of London - Boris Johnson. Philip Williams follows the star of British politics across London and asks: What challenges will he face if he gets the top job of Prime Minister?

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4. Antarctica - Southern Exposure
May 5, 2015
Episode 4

Penguins and partying, Foreign Correspondent travels to Antarctica, the world's biggest natural laboratory, but it's not all work and no play for the dedicated scientific community who live there. Eric Campbell reports.

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5. Syria - Brides Of ISIS
May 19, 2015

Hundreds of young Western educated women are running away from home to marry radical Islamic fighters and live in the self declared "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq. We go into the secret world of the online recruiters.

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6. India - Let There Be Light
May 26, 2015

In the slums of India, lives are being changed by an Australian enterprise providing jobs & clean energy to some of the poorest people on the planet. South Asia correspondent Stephanie March reports.

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7. Slaves To The Beautiful Game
Jun 2, 2015

Qatar's triumphant bid for the 2022 World Cup is under fire not just because of the FIFA corruption scandal. Migrant workers now building its multi-billion dollar facilities endure wretched living & working conditions.

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8. The Cost Of Living
Jun 9, 2015

A French photo-journalist tells how he survived 10 months as a hostage of Islamic State terrorists while five of his fellow captives were taken away and beheaded. Should ransoms have been paid to save their lives.

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9. South Korea - Education Gangnam Style
Jun 16, 2015

Once shackled by mass illiteracy, South Korea now tops global academic league tables. But as North Asia Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world.

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10. India - About A Boy
Jun 23, 2015

Foreign Correspondent goes in search of a baby boy who was born via surrogacy in India but left behind by his Australian parents. Samantha Hawley reports.

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11. Saving Mary Jane
Jul 7, 2015
Episode 11

With just minutes to spare, mother-of-two Mary Jane Veloso escaped the firing squad that executed Australia's Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Find out how she was saved and whether she will make it home to her children.

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12. Greece - Odyssey
Jul 14, 2015
Episode 12

Greece is broke but now has to deal with a flood of foreign boat people fleeing war and poverty. From the picture postcard island of Kos, Barbara Miller reports on the great migration.

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13. The Emerald Aisle
Jul 21, 2015
Episode 13

Sally Sara journeys across Ireland to discover why this conservative Catholic country became the first in the world to say yes to gay marriage in a popular vote.

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14. Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 1)
Jul 28, 2015

For the first time, journalist Peter Greste reports his own story: the trumped up terrorism charges, his 400 days in Egyptian jails, and the long hard fight for freedom of speech.

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15. Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 2)
Aug 4, 2015

Peter Greste's own story of his joyful homecoming after 400 days in an Egyptian jail - and the tense build-up to the final verdict on terrorism charges.

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16. China - Tales Of A City
Aug 11, 2015
Episode 16

A diving stock market, a wobbling economy and a new security crackdown: where is China heading? Tapping into voices you've never heard, Stephen McDonell reports on the changing face of the superpower.

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17. Cuba - Neighbours
Aug 18, 2015
Episode 17

With the US poised to lift its 55 year trade embargo, reporter Eric Campbell tells the remarkable story of how one American farming family befriended Fidel Castro and helped end Cuba's isolation.

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18. Spain - Yes We Can
Aug 25, 2015
Episode 18

Sally Sara meets the grass roots, social media-driven activists who are turning politics on its head in Spain. Now that they've got the power, what will they do with it?

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19. USA - The Trump Show
Sep 1, 2015
Episode 19

Donald Trump was supposed to crash and burn but he is streaking ahead of his rivals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Emma Alberici asks why the bombastic billionaire is defying the pundits.

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20. India - Tashi And The Monk
Sep 8, 2015
Episode 20

The inspirational story of a former Buddhist monk and the home he built for abandoned children in the Himalayan foothills. His newest charge, a traumatised little girl called Tashi, is his toughest challenge so far.

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21. PNG - Doctor Dim Dim
Sep 15, 2015
Episode 21

Carpenter Barry Kirby's life turned upside down when he chanced upon a young woman dying on a bush road. The Australian tradie became a doctor with a mission: saving women's lives in the wilds of Papua New Guinea.

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22. Ukraine - Republic Of Nowhere
Sep 22, 2015
Episode 22

It's the war the world forgot. At Europe's side door nearly 8000 people have been killed and 1.5 million have fled their homes. Correspondent Matt Brown reports from devastated eastern Ukraine.

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23. How To Save the World
Nov 30, 2015
Episode 23

As key climate talks start in Paris, Eric Campbell looks at potential solutions to global warming - from Costa Rica's thermal power to giant North Sea wind farms and California's solar start ups.

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24. #BlackLivesMatter
Dec 7, 2015
Episode 24

In a Foreign Correspondent special, Sally Sara takes to the streets of Baltimore & Chicago to investigate a reawakened civil rights movement that's fighting to stop the killing of black Americans.

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25. Our Man In China
Dec 14, 2015
Episode 25

After 10 years as the ABC's China Correspondent, Stephen McDonell looks back at the big stories of his time based in Beijing and asks where the country is headed.

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26. Digital Disruption
Dec 21, 2015
Episode 26

In the final Foreign Correspondent for 2015, Mark Corcoran reveals how the digital revolution is changing the way we get the news from around the world.

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