12 episodes

Foreign Correspondent - Series 2018

First aired Jul 10, 2018Season 27

Browse all 12 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

On His Own Terms

NR
Jul 10, 201830 min

This is the inside story of 104-year-old activist David Goodall's last days in Europe as he farewells family and campaigns for the right to die, up to his final hour.

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Episode 2

Don't Call Australia Home!

NR
Jul 17, 201830 min

Australia is detaining, cuffing and deporting more New Zealanders than any other group. Guest reporter Peter FitzSimons finds it's riling Kiwis and straining relations across The Ditch. Is this how we treat an old mate?

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Episode 3

Blockchain Island

NR
Jul 24, 201830 min

A tropical paradise is racked with bankruptcy then smashed by a killer hurricane. In rides a cavalry of digital evangelists selling hi-tech revolution. Will they save the day? Eric Campbell reports.

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Episode 4

Bloodland

NR
Jul 31, 201830 min

Are attacks on white South African farmers aimed at terrorising them off the land? Should Australia offer them special haven, as some MPs here have suggested? Jonathan Holmes investigates.

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Episode 5

Tipping Point

NR
Aug 7, 201830 min

China sent Australia's recycling industry into a spin when it banned most waste imports. Now it's tackling a home-grown rubbish crisis. Bill Birtles looks at China's own war on waste and asks: is it winning?

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Episode 6

To Burn or Not to Burn

NR
Aug 14, 201830 min

There's a new push in Australia to build giant incinerators to burn waste. Is this the way to go? Those clever Swedes think so. Foreign Correspondent sends War on Waste's Craig Reucassel to Sweden to investigate.

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Episode 7

The Village

NR
Aug 21, 201830 min

Sean Dorney got thrown out of PNG for his reporting yet he received one of its top honours. He skippered its footy team and fell for a local girl. Now suffering motor neurone disease, he makes an emotional final visit.

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Episode 8

Homeland

NR
Aug 28, 201830 min

Berlin was Holocaust headquarters - but for young Israeli Jews it's the paragon of cool. Eric Campbell tracks one of the odder modern migrations as he goes inside Berlin's Jewish diaspora in Homeland.

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Episode 9

The French Letter

NR
Sep 4, 201830 min

Is it OK for a man to proposition a woman in the street or at work? Some leading French women say yes. In Paris, guest reporter Annabel Crabb asks what happens when #MeToo rubs up against Pepe Le Pew.

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Episode 10

A Big Piece of Good News

NR
Sep 11, 201830 min

A wild piece of coast was threatened by malls and McMansions... until a reclusive billionaire couple arrived with the gift of a lifetime. Zoe Daniel reports.

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Episode 11

Leave No Dark Corner

NR
Sep 18, 201830 min

China is marrying Big Brother to Big Data. Every citizen will be watched and their behaviour scored in the most ambitious and sophisticated system of social control in history. Matthew Carney reports.

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Episode 12

Eye of the Fire

NR
Sep 25, 201830 min

It's a Greek tale of tragedy, heroism and mind-blowing incompetence. Eric Campbell tells the story of the world's deadliest bushfire since Australia's Black Saturday in 2009 - and the fury in its aftermath.