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Thursday, 26 May 2011
USA - By the Beach
Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz. Three of America�s truly gruesome figures of criminal infamy who killed and killed again. In the annals of crime, serial killers are relatively rare. But out on a bleak, windswept stretch of New York's Long Island seashore police investigating a cluster of ten murders are grappling with the chilling prospect that more than one serial killer is responsible. They�re not going to solve this in a nice, neat commercial half-hour.
China - True Believers
He was watched at every turn. Trailed by secret agents everywhere he went. Every conversation and meeting observed. The black Hondas of the local security services followed him from city to city, village to village. For China correspondent Stephen McDonell, this report was proving a difficult assignment. But in China these days, this is what happens when the story is about a group which is making the Communist Party very nervous.
Iran - Inside/Out
A rising rap star, a documentary maker, a teacher who happens to be gay. In many places around the world they�re free to get on with their lives. Iran is not one of them. And while authorities have made it almost impossible to scrutinise life in Iran since 2009�s uprising and crackdown, a graphic picture has finally emerged. It�s Iran through the eyes of brave young people who paid heavily for their dissent - tortured, jailed, blacklisted - but who somehow managed to escape the clutches of a stifling regime to tell their stories.
India - Eat, Pray, Give
He doesn�t host his own cooking show. He doesn�t endorse a line of high-end kitchenware or churn out glossy recipe books by the tonne. His career path certainly had its destination in Europe as a Masterchef making haute cuisine for the affluent. Instead he�s making a difference on the streets of southern India, shattering caste barriers, feeding the forgotten and sustaining lives. Among the helpless and destitute of Madurai he�s a genuine celebrity chef. See Krishnan Narayanan's Akshayatrust.
Bahrain - Kingdom, Undercover
In a violent sandstorm it�s hard to know what�s real and what�s not. And so in the little Arabian island of Bahrain when push came to shove and protest turned to uprising the swift, uncompromising and overwhelming response kicked up a thick, gritty cloud over the Kingdom. One thing is clear though � this wannabe Dubai might claim it�s open for business but if you�re selling political reform and democracy the shutters come down and brutality ensues. We go undercover to see how authorities kept a lid on revolution. It�s not pretty.
Recent Programs
| 17/05/2011 | China - True Believers | Stephen McDonell |
| 03/05/2011 | Iran, Islamic Republic Of - Inside/Out | Jane Corbin (BBC Panorama) |
| 26/04/2011 | India - Eat, Pray, Give | Sally Sara |
| 19/04/2011 | Bahrain - Kingdom, Undercover | Trevor Bormann |
| 12/04/2011 | Micronesia, Federated States Of - The Blue and the Black | Mark Willacy |
| 05/04/2011 | - Dance Like There's No Tomorrow | Michael Brissenden |
| 29/03/2011 | Kazakhstan - Beyond Borat | Eric Campbell |
| 22/03/2011 | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Monster Makeover | Mary Ann Jolley |
| 08/03/2011 | Russian Federation - Killing the Messenger | Eric Campbell |
| 01/03/2011 | United States - Gunsmoke | Michael Brissenden |
Producer's Notes
23/05/2011White House Photographers Award
Foreign Correspondent cameraman Louie Eroglu has again won the White House News Photographers' Association Awards for Video Photographer of the Year, announced in Washington earlier this month. Here Louie talks about the filming of his winning entry.
The Blue and the Black
Mark Willacy takes us under the surface in this beautiful but endangered lagoon in the Chuuk Islands "The Blue & The Black"
Out of the Vault
Re-visit some of our ever-popular Foreign Correspondent postcards. This week in Winter Follies Eric Campbell looks at the way some Muscovites keep their cool.
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.
