Series 24
26 episodes · Apr 14, 2015
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S24E1Pitch Battle
Apr 14, 201530mFor 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.
S24E2Vietnam - Are You My Mother?
Apr 21, 201530mForeign Correspondent follows the remarkable journey of a Vietnamese adoptee as she desperately searches for the mother she lost nearly 40 years ago.
S24E3The Boris Mission
Apr 28, 201530mAn 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?
S24E4Antarctica - Southern Exposure
May 5, 201530mPenguins 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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Syria - Brides Of ISIS
May 19, 201530mHundreds 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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India - Let There Be Light
May 26, 201530mIn 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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Slaves To The Beautiful Game
Jun 2, 201530mQatar'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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The Cost Of Living
Jun 9, 201530mA 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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South Korea - Education Gangnam Style
Jun 16, 201530mOnce 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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India - About A Boy
Jun 23, 201530mForeign 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.
S24E11Saving Mary Jane
Jul 7, 201530mWith 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.
S24E12Greece - Odyssey
Jul 14, 201530mGreece 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.
S24E13The Emerald Aisle
Jul 21, 201530mSally 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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Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 1)
Jul 28, 201530mFor 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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Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 2)
Aug 4, 201530mPeter 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.
S24E16China - Tales Of A City
Aug 11, 201530mA 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.
S24E17Cuba - Neighbours
Aug 18, 201530mWith 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.
S24E18Spain - Yes We Can
Aug 25, 201530mSally 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?
S24E19USA - The Trump Show
Sep 1, 201530mDonald 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.
S24E20India - Tashi And The Monk
Sep 8, 201530mThe 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.
S24E21PNG - Doctor Dim Dim
Sep 15, 201529mCarpenter 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.
S24E22Ukraine - Republic Of Nowhere
Sep 22, 201530mIt'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.
S24E23How To Save the World
Nov 30, 201530mAs 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.
S24E24#BlackLivesMatter
Dec 7, 2015112mIn 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.
S24E25Our Man In China
Dec 14, 201530mAfter 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.
S24E26Digital Disruption
Dec 21, 201530mIn 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.