Latest Program Transcripts
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
![Trump Campaign](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8041106-4x3-80x60.jpg)
USA - President Trump
We got to know him as a showman, a wheeler-dealer and one-time rank outsider who shocked and appalled Washington’s establishment. Now he’s set to lead the free world. So who is President Trump?
![The Bridge](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7903288-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Turkey - The Bridge
Who’ll be next? Fear grips Turkey after a failed coup and a sweeping purge set the country on a dangerous and unpredictable path. Sally Sara investigates.
![Norway Oil](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7883082-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Norway - Keep Calm and Drill On
Oil-rich Norway has adopted the radical goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. But as Eric Campbell reports, there’s a catch to this green revolution.
![Wild Things](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7863308-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Scotland - Wild Things
Wolves and bison roaming Germany... the lynx returning to the U.K. As Barbara Miller reports, endangered animals are being reintroduced to wild places as part of a radical and controversial idea called “re-wilding”.
![Family Business](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7841274-4x3-80x60.jpg)
PNG - Family Matters
When filmmaker Bob Connolly reunites with the characters of his acclaimed PNG Highlands trilogy, he is shocked at how their fortunes have changed.
![Generation Left Behind](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7820940-4x3-80x60.jpg)
China - Generation Left Behind
More than 60 million Chinese children are growing up without their parents, paying the price of their country’s dash to prosperity. Matthew Carney reports on the generation left behind.
![Last Whites in East End](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7799986-4x3-80x60.jpg)
UK - Last Whites of the East End
For the first time ever, white Britons are a minority in London. This film delves into the lives of the dwindling cockney tribe of the East End as they struggle with immigration, “white flight” and loss of identity.
N.B. Due to copyright restrictions, the video of this story will not be accessible to viewers outside Australia.![The War on Children](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7778882-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Yemen - The War on Children
In a playground of international powers, it’s children who are dying from bombs, bullets and hunger. Sophie McNeill and cameraman Aaron Hollett report from the Yemen war zone.
![For the Greater Glory](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7749828-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Germany - For Greater Glory
With the Rio Games beset by doping controversy, Sarah Dingle reveals the tragic human cost of one of the biggest drug scandals of them all – East Germany’s state-sponsored doping program.
![Never Trump](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7711774-4x3-80x60.jpg)
USA - Never Trump
Hamish Macdonald goes deep inside the Republican Party’s civil war, as insurgents plot to destroy Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
![Get Up, Stand Up](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7683958-4x3-80x60.jpg)
South Sudan - Get Up, Stand Up
As the world’s newest nation teeters on the brink of civil war, the young people of South Sudan are pushing back, seeking peace through music and the power of radio.
![The Labours of Mr Zhang](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7663292-4x3-80x60.jpg)
China - The Labours of Mr Zhang
As China’s economy stumbles, Matthew Carney taps into the anger of a growing mass of unemployed workers, and meets a labour activist who’s risking his freedom to fight for their rights.
![A Bloody Boycott](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7643042-4x3-80x60.jpg)
PNG - A Bloody Boycott
Eight or more students shot, universities boycotted, a prime minister fighting for his political life. Eric Tlozek looks behind the unrest afflicting Australia’s nearest neighbour, PNG.
![Surfing in Capetown](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7623198-4x3-80x60.jpg)
South Africa - Freedom Riders
How do you free troubled kids from the violence and poverty of South Africa’s broken townships? For starters, you teach them surfing. Sally Sara reports on the idea that’s inspiring youngsters to unleash their best.
Freedom Riders has also been launched as a dynamic interactive documentary. The ABC is the first Australian media outlet to use Verse, a ground breaking platform that allows audiences to navigate their own way through the story with extra footage and features. Meet new characters, explore locations, ask questions and discover more. Live the story - Freedom Riders
![The Reckoning](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7572026-4x3-80x60.jpg)
U.K. - The Reckoning
It deposed tyrant Saddam Hussein but led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, lit sectarian conflict and helped the rise of ISIS. Was the Iraq war justified? Thirteen years on, a major British inquiry is set to pass judgment.
![Honouring Noah](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7552064-4x3-80x60.jpg)
USA - Honouring Noah
It’s the question posed after Orlando and every other massacre: Will America ever regulate guns? Lisa Millar revisits a mother who lost her little boy to a mass shooter and who – remarkably – sees positive signs of change.
![A Fleeting Freedom](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7521790-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Indonesia - A Fleeting Freedom
As supporters battle to free six people jailed in a child abuse scandal at an elite Indonesian school, Foreign Correspondent digs into the evidence – and turns up some surprises.
![Accused](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7512226-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Indonesia - Accused
A puff of rumour grew into a tempest of accusations that led to the jailing of seven people for alleged child abuse at an elite international school in Jakarta. Was justice served - or was it a case of moral panic?
N.B. Due to copyright restrictions, the video of this story will not be accessible to viewers outside Australia.
![There'll Always Be An England](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7488534-4x3-80x60.jpg)
UK - There'll Always Be An England
Quit Europe or stay? It’s the English who hold the whip hand in the coming UK vote - and many want out. So what’s up with the Poms? Lisa Millar explores the essence of “Englishness”.
![Surgical Strike](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7465070-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Afghanistan - Surgical Strike
The anatomy of a military scandal... Why did US forces attack a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Afghanistan, killing 42 people? An Australian doctor is among the survivors who tell their chilling stories.
![Into the Zone](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7441760-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Japan - Into the Zone
Mark Willacy travels to radiation-poisoned Fukushima to uncover startling new evidence about the dangers that still lurk there and the near insurmountable task of cleaning it up.
![Game of Drones](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7423480-4x3-80x60.jpg)
USA - Game of Drones
A giant leap for mankind or a hazardous lurch into the unknown? A tiny Australian venture is racing to rule the skies – as drone companies vie to deliver mail, medicines and margherita pizza to your door.
![Persian Jam](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7402988-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Iran - Persian Jam
Hairy hipsters, beautiful girls, funky cafes, pulsing live music. This isn’t inner city Aussie cool. This is Iran, where young artists and musicians are testing the tolerance of the Islamic regime. Matt Brown reports on the latest twist in Iran’s rich history of music, art and poetry.
![False Economy](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7381370-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Indonesia - False Economy
Thousands of Australians book their holidays on cheap foreign airlines – but how safe are they? Troubling evidence about the safety of some budget carriers.
![King Salman poster](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7364914-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Middle East - Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Undercover cameras provide a rare window into one of the world’s most secretive countries, revealing how Saudi Arabia ruthlessly crushes internal dissent – and how some people are fighting back.
N.B. Due to copyright restrictions, the video of this story will not be accessible to viewers outside Australia.
![On Thin Ice](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7340154-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Afghanistan - On Thin Ice
A budding ski industry has sprung up in the remote alps of Afghanistan. But this enterprise – and the local people - face the menace of a resurgent Taliban.
![Mafia Hunter](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7321464-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Sicily - Mafia Hunter
Inside the life of Pino Maniaci, the irrepressible Sicilian journalist who campaigns daily against the Mafia, defying constant threats to his life.
![Poppyland](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7302280-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Myanmar - Poppyland
Liam Cochrane travels to the source of most of Australia’s heroin - the vast opium fields of Myanmar, where poppy production has more than doubled in a decade. What will it take to stop the opium trade?
![One Night in Cologne](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7283066-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Germany - One Night in Cologne
A mob sexual assault on young women revellers on New Year’s Eve snapped Germany’s celebrated tolerance of mass migration. What happened? Why was it hushed up? How has it changed the nation?
![The Zombies of Wall Street](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7268536-4x3-80x60.jpg)
USA - The Zombies from Wall Street
They’re back. The crazy loans that triggered the Global Financial Crisis have morphed into “zombie mortgages” and as Paul Barry discovers, they’re cutting a swathe through some American cities.
![Across the ice by dogsled.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170209120102im_/http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7249606-4x3-80x60.jpg)
Sweden - Rosie's Journey
Does gender equality free women from family violence? Campaigner Rosie Batty and reporter Sally Sara journey to gender equality heartland, Sweden, to find out. What they discover will surprise...
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Producer's Notes
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