February 17, 2009 • 30m
Which way is Mecca in space? Helen Vatsikopoulos ponders this and other imponderables when she meets Malaysia’s “it” man, the hunk...Read more
February 17, 2009 • 30m
For 50 years David Frost has shared the world’s stage with the powerful, rich and famous – and this week he shares it with Foreign...Read more
February 24, 2009 • 30m
What would you do if you discovered your adopted children were stolen and trafficked, and not willingly given up by their parents,...Read more
March 3, 2009 • 30m
In Antarctica the race is on for scientific supremacy and to find an ice-scientist’s Holy Grail … a 1,000,000-year-old ice core. ...Read more
March 11, 2009 • 30m
South Asia correspondent Sally Sara with the cricket tragics of Lahore, as Pakistan is wiped from world cricket's tour map.
March 11, 2009 • 30m
Washington correspondent Tracy Bowden uncovers one of the biggest killers in America - the US health system. Lack of insurance is ...Read more
March 17, 2009 • 30m
Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist who says aid is killing Africa. In her new book, Dead Aid, she argues that official aid...Read more
March 17, 2009 • 30m
Cholera is a preventable disease, yet there’s an epidemic raging in Zimbabwe. At least 4,000 are dead, and some 90,000 infected. ...Read more
March 24, 2009 • 30m
China’s exponential growth took Australia along for the white-knuckled ride. It fuelled our resources boom and had economic optimi...Read more
March 31, 2009 • 30m
He’ll have you believe he’s a quiet goat farmer and a keen horseman who just happens to think he might make an ideal Indonesian Pr...Read more
April 7, 2009 • 30m
When people in remote villages in Zanskar get sick, chances are they’ll turn to the “Oracle”. The Oracle is a faith healer who goe...Read more
April 7, 2009 • 30m
He's in the fast lane to the top in South Africa but there’s powerful evidence the man following the trail blazed by Mandela has b...Read more
April 15, 2009 • 30m
They were hiding for their lives, hunted by gunmen who’d brought India’s biggest city to a standstill. In this chilling ‘insider'...Read more
April 21, 2009 • 30m
It’s turned out some fearsome warriors in the past but can America’s prestigious military academy West Point manufacture the brass...Read more
April 28, 2009 • 30m
How and why did a bunch of illiterate, dirt poor Africans transform themselves from simple cray-fishermen into the fearsome, gun-t...Read more
May 6, 2009 • 30m
Very few have seen it in the wild but those who have say it’s the most beautiful of the big cats. The Snow Leopard prowls the roo...Read more
May 19, 2009 • 30m
For more than four decades, tens of thousands of Colombians have been kidnapped or killed in South America’s longest-running civil...Read more
May 26, 2009 • 30m
It was big, it was shiny and it was brassy. Few things symbolised the wealth and optimism of a post-war America more than the big ...Read more
June 2, 2009 • 30m
Every year thousands of young Australians pack their backpacks, book their EuRail passes and make for Europe, leaving their parent...Read more
June 9, 2009 • 30m
They're big men with even bigger secrets. The cloistered world of Sumo hides myriad rituals and traditions, bone-jarring training ...Read more
June 16, 2009 • 30m
Foreign Correspondent presenter and reporter Mark Corcoran, who has spent a decade observing the dangerous world of South Asian na...Read more
June 23, 2009 • 30m
How did a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, shot by a policeman in Athens six months ago become a cause celebre? Why was ...Read more
June 30, 2009 • 30m
In a Venezuelan slum a young girl practices on her clarinet and dreams a big musical dream. On a stage in New York City an 80 year...Read more
July 7, 2009 • 30m
It’s raw, it’s instant and it’s rocked authoritarian Iran and riveted world attention. It’s the phenomenal new-media broadcast by ...Read more
July 14, 2009 • 30m
A perilous year undercover - ducking the authorities and informers and risking decades in jail – has resulted in an unforgettable ...Read more
July 21, 2009 • 30m
Kilometres of high concrete walls snake through Belfast in Northern Ireland - graffiti daubed and grim. They divide Catholic neigh...Read more
July 28, 2009 • 30m
The Uighurs. Who are they and why is the Chinese government flattening vast tracts of their magnificent cultural capital, Kashgar?...Read more
August 4, 2009 • 30m
It's an idyllic tropical atoll, but amid the coconut groves are billions of dollars of high-tech surveillance equipment. Mark Corc...Read more
August 11, 2009 • 30m
When Venezuela’s socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez lost his best enemy and saw global capitalism teeter you might think he’d be jumping for joy. Not so.
August 18, 2009 • 30m
A year ago Foreign Correspondent flew into the scandalously unsafe skies over PNG to examine why the nation’s aviation industry su...Read more
August 25, 2009 • 30m
They’ve been scarred so deeply they’re shockingly disfigured and yet they’ve refused to bow their heads or withdraw from the world...Read more
September 1, 2009 • 30m
It’s a staggering national habit and it’s grown into a juggernaut of a killing machine claiming an annual toll eclipsing the Aceh ...Read more
September 8, 2009 • 30m
Are mobile phones the new blood diamond? Is our insatiable appetite for the latest electronic gadgets actually fuelling despair, d...Read more
September 15, 2009 • 30m
Most African adoptions don’t have a Hollywood ending. A Foreign Correspondent investigation in Ethiopia exposes a booming internat...Read more
September 22, 2009 • 30m
In Iceland, the financial crisis is called the kreppa and a year after it hit, the whole country is still well and truly in it. Th...Read more
September 29, 2009 • 30m
He’s got money to burn, enormous political and personal power, and well, a problem. Beautiful women. Why can’t Silvio Berlusconi b...Read more
October 6, 2009 • 30m
Paul Kenyon travels three thousand miles along the most dangerous illegal immigration route out of Africa. Many die crossing the S...Read more
October 13, 2009 • 30m
In California massive wildfires are met with massive force – but it comes with a multimillion dollar price tag. With fires on the ...Read more
October 20, 2009 • 30m
It’s claimed Japan’s ferocious and feared Yakuza murder, extort and intimidate according to an honour code. But where is the honou...Read more
October 27, 2009 • 30m
What brought down Air France flight 447? The families, friends and fellow workers of the 228 people who perished when the Rio-Pari...Read more
November 3, 2009 • 30m
With its giant wind farms and pedal-pushing population, Denmark looks like a model global citizen setting a shining green example ...Read more
November 10, 2009 • 30m
Foreign Correspondent’s 2009 spins to a close with an inside look at the stories, characters and issues that moved, provoked and e...Read more