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Tuesday, 9 November 2010
2010 - Once Upon a Year
They’re the stories behind the stories we brought you in 2010. How and why did one correspondent end up in a reality TV series? How do you encourage a super suspicious whistle-blower out of the shadows and which of our intrepid correspondents wept when they saw their program? There’s a hell of a lot that goes into the making of Foreign Correspondent that you don’t see. Here’s your chance.
U.K. - 'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo
It was a bit of electronic skulduggery aimed at getting shock horror, scoop exclusives on Royals, TV celebrities and politicians – anyone with a high profile and a mobile. Simply hack into their phone message bank and turn the juicier stuff into screaming headlines and raucous stories for your tabloid readers. Dead easy! So simple it was almost criminal. Well, err, it was and it’s fuelled a scandal that – just like a pesky pap – refuses to go away.
China - Dirty Secrets
When things suddenly go BOOM!!! chances are somebody’s going to get hurt or something’s going to be destroyed. In China it’s both. There’s a high human cost and a heavy environmental price as a tearaway, juggernaut economy thunders across a vast landscape, spreading toxic effluent and grave illness. And as we try to expose it we’re challenged, confronted, threatened and secretly filmed.
USA - Who's Afraid of the Big Wild Wolf?
This time America’s hunters aren’t prepared to be very, very quiet. There’s an ornery critter roaming the wilds of the west that they say is devouring native animals and farm stock and they warn it’s only a matter of time before a human is attacked and killed. So they’re cussin’ and hollerin’ for the right to hunt down the predator but conservationists and the law won’t let ‘em. For now, the big wild wolf is protected. So, will they take the law into their own hands?
Recent Programs
| 09/11/2010 | - Once Upon a Year | Foreign Correspondent Team |
| 02/11/2010 | United Kingdom:England - 'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo | Eric Campbell |
| 26/10/2010 | China - Dirty Secrets | Stephen McDonell |
| 19/10/2010 | United States - Who's Afraid of the Big Wild Wolf? | Michael Brissenden |
| 12/10/2010 | Sudan - What Happened Next? | Eric Campbell |
| 05/10/2010 | Lao People's Democratic Republic - The Amazon of Asia | Zoe Daniel |
| 28/09/2010 | Croatia - Captain Dragan | Trevor Bormann |
| 21/09/2010 | - Heroes, Frauds and Imposters | Mark Corcoran |
| 14/09/2010 | Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The - The Swingers | Eric Campbell |
| 08/09/2010 | - Collision Course | Jane Corbin (BBC Panorama) |
Producer's Notes
26/01/2011Australia Day Honour for Sally Sara
Our congratulations to ABC reporter Sally Sara, named as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2011 Australia Day awards. More...
Program Repeats
This year Foreign Correspondent will still be repeated at 1pm on Saturdays in most states, but due to ABC contractual obligations it will at times be replaced by local sporting events.
The program video however, may be viewed on this website.
