Series 26
29 episodes · Mar 14, 2017
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S26E1It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me
Mar 14, 201730mThousands 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.
S26E2Venezuela Undercover
Mar 21, 201730mIt'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.
S26E3Line In The Sand
Mar 28, 201730mIndia'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.
S26E4The Big Goal
Apr 4, 201730mChina 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.
S26E5Resist!
Apr 11, 201730mIt'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.
S26E6Saving The Big Blue
Apr 18, 201730mA 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.
S26E7The Real Great Escape
Apr 25, 201730mForeign 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.
S26E8The Last Eagle Hunters
May 2, 201730mForeign Correspondent takes a spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.
S26E9The Home Show
May 9, 201730mAustralia 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.
S26E10A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin
May 16, 201730mIn 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.
S26E11Hunting The KGB Killers
May 23, 201730mFor 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.
S26E12Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin
May 30, 201730mBritish 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.
S26E13Saving Wales
Jun 6, 201730mLabour 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.
S26E14Life Inside Kerobokan
Jun 13, 201730mA Foreign Correspondent exclusive: Unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail.
S26E15Space Invaders
Jun 20, 201730mA 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?
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Through American Eyes
Jun 27, 201730mABC 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.
S26E17We're Going On A Bear Hunt
Jul 4, 201730mTiny 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.
S26E18Not Everybody Wants A Goat
Jul 11, 201730mMatt 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.
S26E19One Love
Jul 18, 201730mJamaica'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.
S26E20Manchester United
Jul 25, 201730mTerror 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.
S26E21Escape From Marawi
Aug 1, 201730mThousands 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.
S26E22The Dome
Nov 27, 201730mForeign 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.
S26E23Happy Birthday Mr. President!
Dec 4, 201730mVladimir 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.
S26E24Machine Man
Dec 11, 201730mHe 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.
S26E25The Love Boat
Dec 18, 201730mWhile 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.
S26E26The New Italian Job
Jan 8, 201830mThe 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.
S26E27Redneck Revolt
Jan 15, 201830mA 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.
S26E28The Baby Trade
Jan 22, 201830mA 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.
S26E29On Top Of The World
Jan 29, 201830mIs 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.