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The Best Episodes of Foreign Correspondent Season 26

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 1 - It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me
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    #1 - It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me

    S26:E1

    Thousands of travellers, many of them young Australians, are flocking to the Amazon to chase the highs of the ayahuasca plant. Tragically, some never return. Hamish Macdonald investigates.

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  2. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 2 - Venezuela Undercover
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    #2 - Venezuela Undercover

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    It's got more oil than any country on the planet but its people eat garbage and gangsters rule. Defying a media ban, Eric Campbell goes undercover in the onetime socialist idyll of Venezuela.

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  3. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 3 - Line In The Sand
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    #3 - Line In The Sand

    S26:E3

    India's building boom has spawned a "sand mafia" that is plundering the environment and even killing those who get in its way. But as Samantha Hawley reports, some people refuse to be intimidated.

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  4. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 4 - The Big Goal
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    #4 - The Big Goal

    S26:E4

    China is executing a masterplan to dominate world football, pumping billions of dollars into buying foreign players, coaches & entire European clubs & grooming new generations of its own young stars.

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  5. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 5 - Resist!
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    #5 - Resist!

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    It's famed as the city of peace and love, but San Francisco is digging in for a fight over President Trump's order to expel millions of undocumented migrants. Stephanie March reports.

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  6. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 6 - Saving The Big Blue
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    #6 - Saving The Big Blue

    S26:E6

    A band of inspired young Australians are deploying a new weapon against a global scourge - the great gobs of plastic polluting our oceans. Europe Correspondent Lisa Millar tells how they're doing it.

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  7. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 7 - The Real Great Escape
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    #7 - The Real Great Escape

    S26:E7

    Foreign Correspondent tells the true story behind the legendary movie The Great Escape - and the overlooked role of Australians in breaking out of the "escape proof" German POW camp.

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  8. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 8 - The Last Eagle Hunters
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    #8 - The Last Eagle Hunters

    S26:E8

    Foreign Correspondent takes a spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.

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  9. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 9 - The Home Show
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    #9 - The Home Show

    S26:E9

    Australia is a tough place to buy a home. But we're not alone. So what are other countries doing to tackle high cost housing - and what bright ideas can we pinch from them? Hamish Macdonald hosts this special report.

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  10. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 10 - A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin
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    #10 - A Man Of The World: Remembering Mark Colvin

    S26:E10

    In this special tribute episode to Mark Colvin Foreign Correspondent reports on his legacy as a foreign correspondent, as well as a virtual correspondent, harnessing Twitter as a portal to dive into big, breaking stories.

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  11. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 11 - Hunting The KGB Killers
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    #11 - Hunting The KGB Killers

    S26:E11

    For the first time, British investigators tell the inside story of the bizarre murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In a tale that's stranger than fiction, a teapot is the murder weapon.

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  12. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 12 - Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin
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    #12 - Hunting The KGB Killers: Taking On The Kremlin

    S26:E12

    British investigators continue to tell the inside story of the bizarre murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In a tale that's stranger than fiction, a teapot is the murder weapon.

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  13. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 13 - Saving Wales
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    #13 - Saving Wales

    S26:E13

    Labour is praying for one of history's great comebacks in Britain's election. But something once unthinkable may be happening in Wales. Are the tough, working class Welsh flirting with the Tories? Philip Williams reports.

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  14. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 14 - Life Inside Kerobokan
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    #14 - Life Inside Kerobokan

    S26:E14

    A Foreign Correspondent exclusive: Unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail.

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  15. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 15 - Space Invaders
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    #15 - Space Invaders

    S26:E15

    A new space race is on, as tech companies rush to launch thousands of tiny satellites that will tell us more about what's happening on our planet than ever before. But will the information be used for good, or for harm?

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  16. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 16 - Through American Eyes
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    #16 - Through American Eyes

    S26:E16

    ABC NEWS & The New York Times collaborate on a special in which New York Times National Correspondent John Eligon examines the state of race relations in Australia through the fresh eyes of a journalist from Missouri.

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  17. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 17 - We're Going On A Bear Hunt
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    #17 - We're Going On A Bear Hunt

    S26:E17

    Tiny Estonia is digging in against potential attacks from its giant neighbour Russia. And it's employing defences far more creative than guns and boots on the ground. Eric Campbell reports.

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  18. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 18 - Not Everybody Wants A Goat
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    #18 - Not Everybody Wants A Goat

    S26:E18

    Matt Brown reports from Kenya on a radical cash experiment that challenges our deep-rooted notions of charity and may hold the seeds of a revolution in social welfare.

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  19. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 19 - One Love
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    #19 - One Love

    S26:E19

    Jamaica's rich music heritage got hijacked by a vicious and violent brand of homophobia. But along came a new generation of artists who, with a little help from the Internet, are wresting it back. Eric Campbell reports.

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  20. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 20 - Manchester United
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    #20 - Manchester United

    S26:E20

    Terror at a pop concert. Children die. Sirens, grief, fury. How does a city recover? Hamish Macdonald deep dives into Manchester's Muslim community to find hard & revealing conversations going on.

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  21. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 21 - Escape From Marawi
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    #21 - Escape From Marawi

    S26:E21

    Thousands of people have been caught up in a brutal new ISIS battleground on Australia's doorstep. One of them was ABC correspondent Adam Harvey, who took a bullet to the neck. This is his story, and theirs.

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  22. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 22 - The Dome
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    #22 - The Dome

    S26:E22

    Foreign Correspondent returns for a new season. Rising sea levels threaten to flush a vast stash of highly radioactive plutonium into the Pacific Ocean. But thats not the only toxic fallout from a legacy of nuclear tests.

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  23. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 23 - Happy Birthday Mr. President!
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    #23 - Happy Birthday Mr. President!

    S26:E23

    Vladimir Putin crushes opponents, but a growing army of young Russians are fighting back. Their gift to the strongman on his 65th birthday? A show of defiance and a demand to quit. Eric Campbell reports.

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  24. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 24 - Machine Man
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    #24 - Machine Man

    S26:E24

    He fled Saddam Hussein's brutality to become detainee #982 in an Australian refugee camp. Now Munjed al-Muderis is a world-leading surgeon giving amputees a second chance at life. Sophie McNeill tells his inspiring story.

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  25. Foreign Correspondent Season 26 Episode 25 - The Love Boat
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    #25 - The Love Boat

    S26:E25

    While Australia says 'yes', the country with more gay people than most says an implacable 'no'. But in China, a determined group of young men and women just won't take no for an answer, as Matthew Carney reports.

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Season 26 Ratings Summary

"It Doesn't Happen To People Like Me" is the best rated episode of "Foreign Correspondent" season 26. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/14/2017. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Venezuela Undercover".