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Friday, 30 July 2010
Bolivia - The Electric Range
The world’s car manufacturers are shifting gear and heading for greener pastures. They're designing, building and selling more and more hybrids and electric vehicles and that means they need more and more of a very precious metal for their batteries. But where's The Big Celldorado? A remote, beautiful and vast salt pan high in the Bolivian Andes. Problems? You bet!
USA - In the Chocolate City
Prepare to enter the real Washington DC and prepare to have your illusions shattered. It’s where the powerless live. Neglected, poor, black and waiting impatiently for Obama’s promise. But they’ve got one thing that raises the roof, shakes the foundations and makes them forget about being forgotten. It’s called Go Go.
Japan - Bend It Like Jong
He’s a Hummer-driving bachelor with a soft-spot for saccharine R&B love songs, living the high life in Tokyo. And yet there he was on the World Cup centre-stage bawling his eyes out for his beloved North Korea and its so-called Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. Where on earth does Jong Tae Se come from? Well, prepare to enter the detached and – for some – deluded world of the Zainichi.
Afghanistan - Standing on the Sky
Both legs blown away by a mine, he sat on a chair outside his family's house and watched the world go by. This was his hopeless lot for five long, bleak years until a life-altering chain of events. He now walks tall, is second-in-charge of the clinic that helped him and feels like he is standing on the sky. Out of strife, a story to ignite the human spirit.
Recent Programs
| 27/07/2010 | Bolivia - The Electric Range | Mark Corcoran |
| 20/07/2010 | United States - In the Chocolate City | Michael Brissenden |
| 13/07/2010 | Japan - Bend It Like Jong | Mark Willacy |
| 06/07/2010 | Afghanistan - Standing on the Sky | Sally Sara |
| 29/06/2010 | - In Deep Water | Hilary Andersson (BBC Panorama) |
| 22/06/2010 | United States - Truth or Dare | Andrew Fowler |
| 15/06/2010 | United States - High Finance | Eric Campbell |
| 08/06/2010 | Japan - The Catch | Mark Willacy |
| 01/06/2010 | India - Gut Instinct | Tracy Bowden (narrator) |
| 01/06/2010 | - Serendipity on the Sand | Steve Taylor |
Producer's Notes
26/07/2010WikiLeaks Afghanistan
Further to Andrew Fowler's recent story with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Truth or Dare, The Guardian reports Afghanistan War Logs - Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation.
Brother, Don't Come Back
The secret message - and a Japanese family's struggle for survival in North Korea. 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.
