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The Best Episodes of Foreign Correspondent Season 24

Every episode of Foreign Correspondent Season 24 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Foreign Correspondent Season 24!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 1 - Pitch Battle
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    #1 - Pitch Battle

    S24:E1

    For the first time ever Palestine's football team qualified for the Asian Cup, played in Australia. We follow the highs and lows as players are caught up in a brutal war at home and dramas on and off the pitch in Australia.

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  2. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 2 - Vietnam - Are You My Mother?
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    #2 - Vietnam - Are You My Mother?

    S24:E2

    Foreign Correspondent follows the remarkable journey of a Vietnamese adoptee as she desperately searches for the mother she lost nearly 40 years ago.

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  3. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 3 - The Boris Mission
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    #3 - The Boris Mission

    S24:E3

    An exclusive with the Mayor of London - Boris Johnson. Philip Williams follows the star of British politics across London and asks: What challenges will he face if he gets the top job of Prime Minister?

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  4. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 4 - Antarctica - Southern Exposure
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    #4 - Antarctica - Southern Exposure

    S24:E4

    Penguins and partying, Foreign Correspondent travels to Antarctica, the world's biggest natural laboratory, but it's not all work and no play for the dedicated scientific community who live there. Eric Campbell reports.

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  5. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 5 - Syria - Brides Of ISIS
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    #5 - Syria - Brides Of ISIS

    S24:E5

    Hundreds of young Western educated women are running away from home to marry radical Islamic fighters and live in the self declared "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq. We go into the secret world of the online recruiters.

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  6. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 6 - India - Let There Be Light
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    #6 - India - Let There Be Light

    S24:E6

    In the slums of India, lives are being changed by an Australian enterprise providing jobs & clean energy to some of the poorest people on the planet. South Asia correspondent Stephanie March reports.

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  7. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 7 - Slaves To The Beautiful Game
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    #7 - Slaves To The Beautiful Game

    S24:E7

    Qatar's triumphant bid for the 2022 World Cup is under fire not just because of the FIFA corruption scandal. Migrant workers now building its multi-billion dollar facilities endure wretched living & working conditions.

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  8. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 8 - The Cost Of Living
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    #8 - The Cost Of Living

    S24:E8

    A French photo-journalist tells how he survived 10 months as a hostage of Islamic State terrorists while five of his fellow captives were taken away and beheaded. Should ransoms have been paid to save their lives.

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  9. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 9 - South Korea - Education Gangnam Style
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    #9 - South Korea - Education Gangnam Style

    S24:E9

    Once shackled by mass illiteracy, South Korea now tops global academic league tables. But as North Asia Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world.

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  10. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 10 - India - About A Boy
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    #10 - India - About A Boy

    S24:E10

    Foreign Correspondent goes in search of a baby boy who was born via surrogacy in India but left behind by his Australian parents. Samantha Hawley reports.

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  11. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 11 - Saving Mary Jane
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    #11 - Saving Mary Jane

    S24:E11

    With just minutes to spare, mother-of-two Mary Jane Veloso escaped the firing squad that executed Australia's Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Find out how she was saved and whether she will make it home to her children.

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  12. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 12 - Greece - Odyssey
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    #12 - Greece - Odyssey

    S24:E12

    Greece is broke but now has to deal with a flood of foreign boat people fleeing war and poverty. From the picture postcard island of Kos, Barbara Miller reports on the great migration.

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  13. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 13 - The Emerald Aisle
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    #13 - The Emerald Aisle

    S24:E13

    Sally Sara journeys across Ireland to discover why this conservative Catholic country became the first in the world to say yes to gay marriage in a popular vote.

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  14. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 14 - Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 1)
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    #14 - Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 1)

    S24:E14

    For the first time, journalist Peter Greste reports his own story: the trumped up terrorism charges, his 400 days in Egyptian jails, and the long hard fight for freedom of speech.

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  15. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 15 - Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 2)
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    #15 - Peter Greste: My Fight For Freedom (Part 2)

    S24:E15

    Peter Greste's own story of his joyful homecoming after 400 days in an Egyptian jail - and the tense build-up to the final verdict on terrorism charges.

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  16. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 16 - China - Tales Of A City
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    #16 - China - Tales Of A City

    S24:E16

    A diving stock market, a wobbling economy and a new security crackdown: where is China heading? Tapping into voices you've never heard, Stephen McDonell reports on the changing face of the superpower.

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  17. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 17 - Cuba - Neighbours
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    #17 - Cuba - Neighbours

    S24:E17

    With the US poised to lift its 55 year trade embargo, reporter Eric Campbell tells the remarkable story of how one American farming family befriended Fidel Castro and helped end Cuba's isolation.

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  18. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 18 - Spain - Yes We Can
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    #18 - Spain - Yes We Can

    S24:E18

    Sally Sara meets the grass roots, social media-driven activists who are turning politics on its head in Spain. Now that they've got the power, what will they do with it?

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  19. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 19 - USA - The Trump Show
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    #19 - USA - The Trump Show

    S24:E19

    Donald Trump was supposed to crash and burn but he is streaking ahead of his rivals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Emma Alberici asks why the bombastic billionaire is defying the pundits.

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  20. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 20 - India - Tashi And The Monk
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    #20 - India - Tashi And The Monk

    S24:E20

    The inspirational story of a former Buddhist monk and the home he built for abandoned children in the Himalayan foothills. His newest charge, a traumatised little girl called Tashi, is his toughest challenge so far.

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  21. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 21 - PNG - Doctor Dim Dim
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    #21 - PNG - Doctor Dim Dim

    S24:E21

    Carpenter Barry Kirby's life turned upside down when he chanced upon a young woman dying on a bush road. The Australian tradie became a doctor with a mission: saving women's lives in the wilds of Papua New Guinea.

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  22. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 22 - Ukraine - Republic Of Nowhere
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    #22 - Ukraine - Republic Of Nowhere

    S24:E22

    It's the war the world forgot. At Europe's side door nearly 8000 people have been killed and 1.5 million have fled their homes. Correspondent Matt Brown reports from devastated eastern Ukraine.

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  23. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 23 - How To Save the World
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    #23 - How To Save the World

    S24:E23

    As key climate talks start in Paris, Eric Campbell looks at potential solutions to global warming - from Costa Rica's thermal power to giant North Sea wind farms and California's solar start ups.

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  24. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 24 - #BlackLivesMatter
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    #24 - #BlackLivesMatter

    S24:E24

    In a Foreign Correspondent special, Sally Sara takes to the streets of Baltimore & Chicago to investigate a reawakened civil rights movement that's fighting to stop the killing of black Americans.

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  25. Foreign Correspondent Season 24 Episode 25 - Our Man In China
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    #25 - Our Man In China

    S24:E25

    After 10 years as the ABC's China Correspondent, Stephen McDonell looks back at the big stories of his time based in Beijing and asks where the country is headed.

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Season 24 Ratings Summary

"Pitch Battle" is the best rated episode of "Foreign Correspondent" season 24. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/14/2015. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Vietnam - Are You My Mother?".