Season 17 (2009)

Ramadan In Space
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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

The World According to Frost
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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

Stolen and Sold
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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

What Lies Beneath?
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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

Young Lions of Lahore
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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.

American Emergency
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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

Is Aid Killing Africa?
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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

Left To Die
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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

The Big Smoke
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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

The Farmer Wants a Country
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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

Children of Zanskar
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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

Jacob Zuma
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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

Trapped in Terror
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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

The Young Guns
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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

Pirateland
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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

Cats in the Clouds
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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

The Third Amigo
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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

Detroit: Ain't Too Proud To Beg
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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

One Night in Sofia
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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

Sumo Confidential
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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

The Bulldozer
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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

A Greek Tragedy
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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

Bravo! Encore!
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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

The Rebellion Network
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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

Orphans of the Storm
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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

Us and Them
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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

The Uighur Dilemma
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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

Rocket Island
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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

Total Control
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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.

Return to the Fatal Sky
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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

A Brave Face
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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

80 Million a Day
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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

The Congo Connection
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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

Fly Away Children
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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

Hook, Line and Sunk!
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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

Berlusconi and the Beautiful
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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

Europe or Die Trying
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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

California Burning
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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

Without Honour and Humanity
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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

Flight AF 447
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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

Winds of Change
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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

Thanks for Watching
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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