Lauren Day
Director
Foreign Correspondent (1992)
Series 26
Australia's leading international affairs program featuring fascinating, in-depth stories from the ABC's unrivalled network of foreign correspondents.
Released March 14, 1992
Episode 30 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, News
Keywords: imdb.political-controversy, imdb.world-news, imdb.foreign-correspondent
Network: ABC TV
S26E1 - It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me
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.
March 14, 2017, midnight
S26E2 - Venezuela Undercover
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.
March 21, 2017, midnight
S26E3 - Line In The Sand
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.
March 28, 2017, midnight
S26E4 - The Big Goal
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.
April 4, 2017, midnight
S26E5 - Resist!
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.
April 11, 2017, midnight
S26E6 - Saving The Big Blue
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.
April 18, 2017, midnight
S26E7 - The Real Great Escape
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.
April 25, 2017, midnight
S26E8 - The Last Eagle Hunters
Foreign Correspondent takes a spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.
May 2, 2017, midnight
S26E9 - The Home Show
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.
May 9, 2017, midnight
S26E10 - A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin
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.
May 16, 2017, midnight
S26E11 - Hunting The KGB Killers
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.
May 23, 2017, midnight
S26E12 - Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin
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.
May 30, 2017, midnight
S26E13 - Saving Wales
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.
June 6, 2017, midnight
S26E14 - Life Inside Kerobokan
A Foreign Correspondent exclusive: Unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail.
June 13, 2017, midnight
S26E15 - Space Invaders
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?
June 20, 2017, midnight
S26E16 - Through American Eyes
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.
June 27, 2017, midnight
S26E17 - We're Going On A Bear Hunt
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.
July 4, 2017, midnight
S26E18 - Not Everybody Wants A Goat
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.
July 11, 2017, midnight
S26E19 - One Love
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.
July 18, 2017, midnight
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S26E20 - Manchester United
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.
July 25, 2017, midnight
S26E21 - Escape From Marawi
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.
Aug. 1, 2017, midnight
S26E22 - The Dome
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.
Nov. 27, 2017, midnight
S26E23 - Happy Birthday Mr. President!
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.
Dec. 4, 2017, midnight
S26E24 - Machine Man
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.
Dec. 11, 2017, midnight
S26E25 - The Love Boat
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.
Dec. 18, 2017, midnight
S26E26 - The New Italian Job
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.
Jan. 8, 2018, midnight
S26E27 - Redneck Revolt
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.
Jan. 15, 2018, midnight
S26E28 - The Baby Trade
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.
Jan. 22, 2018, midnight
S26E29 - On Top Of The World
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.
Jan. 29, 2018, midnight
Network: ABC TV
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: March 14, 1992
Last Air Date: Sept. 30, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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