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Foreign Correspondent Season 2009

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2009x01 Ramadan In Space aired Feb 17, 2009

Which way is Mecca in space? Helen Vatsikopoulos ponders this and other imponderables when she meets Malaysia’s “it” man, the hunky former male model Dr Shei... read more

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2009x02 The World According to Frost aired Feb 17, 2009

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 Correspondent’s Mark Corco... read more

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2009x03 Stolen and Sold aired Feb 24, 2009

What would you do if you discovered your adopted children were stolen and trafficked, and not willingly given up by their parents, as you’d believed? South A... read more

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2009x04 What Lies Beneath? aired Mar 03, 2009

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. It’s thought that’s where ... read more

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2009x05 Young Lions of Lahore aired Mar 11, 2009

South Asia correspondent Sally Sara with the cricket tragics of Lahore, as Pakistan is wiped from world cricket's tour map.

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2009x06 American Emergency aired Mar 11, 2009

Washington correspondent Tracy Bowden uncovers one of the biggest killers in America - the US health system. Lack of insurance is now the third leading cause... read more

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2009x07 Is Aid Killing Africa? aired Mar 17, 2009

Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist who says aid is killing Africa. In her new book, Dead Aid, she argues that official aid is easy money that foste... read more

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2009x08 Left To Die aired Mar 17, 2009

Cholera is a preventable disease, yet there’s an epidemic raging in Zimbabwe. At least 4,000 are dead, and some 90,000 infected. Filming secretly and posi... read more

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2009x09 The Big Smoke aired Mar 24, 2009

China’s exponential growth took Australia along for the white-knuckled ride. It fuelled our resources boom and had economic optimists forecasting decades of ... read more

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2009x10 The Farmer Wants a Country aired Mar 31, 2009

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 President one day. But loo... read more

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2009x11 Children of Zanskar aired Apr 07, 2009

When people in remote villages in Zanskar get sick, chances are they’ll turn to the “Oracle”. The Oracle is a faith healer who goes into a trance so a Tibeta... read more

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2009x12 Jacob Zuma aired Apr 07, 2009

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 been on the take. Reporte... read more

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2009x13 Trapped in Terror aired Apr 15, 2009

They were hiding for their lives, hunted by gunmen who’d brought India’s biggest city to a standstill. In this chilling ‘insider's’ account of a terrorist... read more

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2009x14 The Young Guns aired Apr 21, 2009

It’s turned out some fearsome warriors in the past but can America’s prestigious military academy West Point manufacture the brass that will ultimately preva... read more

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2009x15 Pirateland aired Apr 28, 2009

How and why did a bunch of illiterate, dirt poor Africans transform themselves from simple cray-fishermen into the fearsome, gun-toting gangs mugging giant, ... read more

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2009x16 Cats in the Clouds aired May 06, 2009

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 roof of the world in dwindling... read more

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2009x17 The Third Amigo aired May 19, 2009

For more than four decades, tens of thousands of Colombians have been kidnapped or killed in South America’s longest-running civil war. Now Colombia’s hard-l... read more

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2009x18 Detroit: Ain't Too Proud To Beg aired May 26, 2009

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 car and the Motown sound. ... read more

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2009x19 One Night in Sofia aired Jun 02, 2009

Every year thousands of young Australians pack their backpacks, book their EuRail passes and make for Europe, leaving their parents to worry and fret about t... read more

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2009x20 Sumo Confidential aired Jun 09, 2009

They're big men with even bigger secrets. The cloistered world of Sumo hides myriad rituals and traditions, bone-jarring training schedules even humiliating ... read more

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2009x21 The Bulldozer aired Jun 16, 2009

Foreign Correspondent presenter and reporter Mark Corcoran, who has spent a decade observing the dangerous world of South Asian narco-politics, takes us on a... read more

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2009x22 A Greek Tragedy aired Jun 23, 2009

How did a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, shot by a policeman in Athens six months ago become a cause celebre? Why was his name and the manner of ... read more

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2009x23 Bravo! Encore! aired Jun 30, 2009

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 old clarinettist takes his... read more

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2009x24 The Rebellion Network aired Jul 07, 2009

It’s raw, it’s instant and it’s rocked authoritarian Iran and riveted world attention. It’s the phenomenal new-media broadcast by Iran’s angry, dissenting yo... read more

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2009x25 Orphans of the Storm aired Jul 14, 2009

A perilous year undercover - ducking the authorities and informers and risking decades in jail – has resulted in an unforgettable Foreign Correspondent with ... read more

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2009x26 Us and Them aired Jul 21, 2009

Kilometres of high concrete walls snake through Belfast in Northern Ireland - graffiti daubed and grim. They divide Catholic neighbourhoods from Protestant. ... read more

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2009x27 The Uighur Dilemma aired Jul 28, 2009

The Uighurs. Who are they and why is the Chinese government flattening vast tracts of their magnificent cultural capital, Kashgar? Is it for safety or to s... read more

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2009x28 Rocket Island aired Aug 04, 2009

It's an idyllic tropical atoll, but amid the coconut groves are billions of dollars of high-tech surveillance equipment. Mark Corcoran reveals a hitherto top... read more

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2009x29 Total Control aired Aug 11, 2009

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.

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2009x30 Return to the Fatal Sky aired Aug 18, 2009

A year ago Foreign Correspondent flew into the scandalously unsafe skies over PNG to examine why the nation’s aviation industry sustains so many fatal accide... read more

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2009x31 A Brave Face aired Aug 25, 2009

They’ve been scarred so deeply they’re shockingly disfigured and yet they’ve refused to bow their heads or withdraw from the world. They’re the remarkable wo... read more

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2009x32 80 Million a Day aired Sep 01, 2009

It’s a staggering national habit and it’s grown into a juggernaut of a killing machine claiming an annual toll eclipsing the Aceh tsunami. Welcome to the war... read more

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2009x33 The Congo Connection aired Sep 08, 2009

Are mobile phones the new blood diamond? Is our insatiable appetite for the latest electronic gadgets actually fuelling despair, deprivation and oppression i... read more

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2009x34 Fly Away Children aired Sep 15, 2009

Most African adoptions don’t have a Hollywood ending. A Foreign Correspondent investigation in Ethiopia exposes a booming international adoption trade out of... read more

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2009x35 Hook, Line and Sunk! aired Sep 22, 2009

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. Thousands are losing their ho... read more

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2009x36 Berlusconi and the Beautiful aired Sep 29, 2009

He’s got money to burn, enormous political and personal power, and well, a problem. Beautiful women. Why can’t Silvio Berlusconi behave himself and why do It... read more

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2009x37 Europe or Die Trying aired Oct 06, 2009

Paul Kenyon travels three thousand miles along the most dangerous illegal immigration route out of Africa. Many die crossing the Sahara, or at sea on the way... read more

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2009x38 California Burning aired Oct 13, 2009

In California massive wildfires are met with massive force – but it comes with a multimillion dollar price tag. With fires on the increase around the world, ... read more

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2009x39 Without Honour and Humanity aired Oct 20, 2009

It’s claimed Japan’s ferocious and feared Yakuza murder, extort and intimidate according to an honour code. But where is the honour in the squalid new enterp... read more

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2009x40 Flight AF 447 aired Oct 27, 2009

What brought down Air France flight 447? The families, friends and fellow workers of the 228 people who perished when the Rio-Paris flight ditched in the Atl... read more

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2009x41 Winds of Change aired Nov 03, 2009

With its giant wind farms and pedal-pushing population, Denmark looks like a model global citizen setting a shining green example for all comers to the Copen... read more

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2009x42 Thanks for Watching aired Nov 10, 2009

Foreign Correspondent’s 2009 spins to a close with an inside look at the stories, characters and issues that moved, provoked and enthralled our audience. It’... read more

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