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Episode list

Four Corners
Interview: Paul Ducklin
Sun, Aug 16, 2009
  • S49.E28
  • Interview: Paul Ducklin
Australia may be one of the most internet-connected countries on earth, with a super-fast broadband network on the way. But now the experts are warning there's danger with cyber crooks roaming the super highway.
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Kids Doing Time
Sun, Aug 23, 2009
  • S49.E29
  • Kids Doing Time
How a state government's "get tough on crime" policy is condemning hundreds of young people to life in jail.
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Conspiracy 7/7: The London Bombings
Sun, Aug 30, 2009
  • S49.E30
  • Conspiracy 7/7: The London Bombings
The BBC's Conspiracy Files investigates a range of remarkable claims that have been made after the bomb attacks on London's transport system four years ago. Why did the government claim the bombers had travelled to London on a train that didn't run on that day? Did Israeli security forces know of the attacks in advance and then warn their officials visiting London not go near the targeted locations? These are just some of the remarkable claims being made.
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The Perfect Storm

S49.E1 ∙ The Perfect Storm

Sun, Feb 08, 2009
Last year Australians watched in disbelief as the financial markets of Europe and America faltered and collapsed. What started as a credit crunch on Wall Street spread round the world, plunging economies into recession, destroying trillions of dollars of wealth and putting millions of people out of work. Now it's finally hit home in Australia.
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Two Days in Hell

S49.E2 ∙ Two Days in Hell

Sun, Feb 15, 2009
They had been warned, they thought they had made the necessary preparations but nothing could prepare the people of Victoria for the fireball that swept through their state. How did it happen? What were the conditions really like that day? And what happened to the preparations so carefully made?
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The Man Who Armed The World

S49.E4 ∙ The Man Who Armed The World

Sun, Mar 01, 2009
BBC Reporter Tom Mangold tells the remarkable story of Victor Bout, the man Western governments claim was the world's biggest arms dealer. Not only does the program reveal the extent of Victor Bout's allegedly murderous activities, it also details his pursuit and capture by international authorities.
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Heat on the Hill

S49.E5 ∙ Heat on the Hill

Sun, Mar 08, 2009
On the eve of the government's release of its controversial climate change legislation, reporter Liz Jackson investigates the relentless lobbying campaign conducted by environmentalists and industry over the past 12 months. Both sides are unhappy and the government is feeling the heat.
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Colombia's Mr Big

S49.E6 ∙ Colombia's Mr Big

Sun, Mar 15, 2009
Colombia's king of cocaine blows the whistle on his country's drug trafficking cartels. Called "The Monkey" his real name is Salvatore Mancuso and for fifteen years he and his men conducted a campaign of terror: stealing land, killing farmers and trafficking billions of dollars of cocaine to markets in Europe and the Pacific. Now he has rolled over telling U.S. authorities what he did and the people who helped him do it.
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The War Within

S49.E8 ∙ The War Within

Sun, Mar 29, 2009
With more troops being posted to Afghanistan the issue of Post Traumatic Stress looms large.
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Back from the Dead: the John Darwin Story

S49.E10 ∙ Back from the Dead: the John Darwin Story

Sun, Apr 12, 2009
For six years John Darwin pretended he was dead. Drowned in a canoeing accident in the North Sea off the coast of Britain. With the assistance of his wife Anne he cashed in six hundred thousand dollars of insurance and pension entitlements and lived a fantasy life, changing his name, altering his appearance and hiding from the world he had left behind.
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The New Wave

S49.E11 ∙ The New Wave

Sun, Apr 19, 2009
Reporter Matthew Carney wanted to find out the real impact of the economic downturn on the day to day lives of working Australians.
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Eye of the Storm

S49.E12 ∙ Eye of the Storm

Sun, Apr 26, 2009
A very personal story of the fire that devastated the iconic Victorian town of Marysville on 7th February 2009 - Black Saturday.
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They Killed Sister Dorothy

S49.E13 ∙ They Killed Sister Dorothy

Sun, May 03, 2009
"They Killed Sister Dorothy." On February 12th 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, a catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, was shot six times and left to die on a muddy road in the Brazilian Amazon. Who was this woman and why did her work amongst the poor arouse so much anger from ranchers and cattlemen?
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Code of Silence

S49.E14 ∙ Code of Silence

Sun, May 10, 2009
For much of the past decade rugby league in Australia has been dogged by a series of startling allegations relating to alcohol, women and sex. After every incident the National Rugby League has told the public it's moving to clean up the game.
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Fake

S49.E18 ∙ Fake

Sun, Jun 07, 2009
The underbelly of the Australian art world exposed.
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Who Killed Mr Ward

S49.E19 ∙ Who Killed Mr Ward

Sun, Jun 14, 2009
Liz Jackson investigates the tragic death of an Aboriginal leader locked in a prison van in heat wave conditions.
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Out of Time

S49.E22 ∙ Out of Time

Sun, Jul 05, 2009
A chilling investigation of an ambulance service that is putting patient's lives at risk.
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The Madoff Hustle

S49.E23 ∙ The Madoff Hustle

Thu, Jul 09, 2009
From his headquarters in New York, US financier Bernard Madoff masterminded a fraud that netted billions of dollars and ensnared thousands, from Palm Beach billionaires and Hollywood movie stars to pensioners across the US. But Madoff's scam did not end in America - he went global in his search for victims.
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The Good Earth

S49.E24 ∙ The Good Earth

Mon, Jul 20, 2009
The story of the high stakes battle now being fought between government, farmers and mining companies for the control of Australia's most fertile agricultural land.
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Holy Cash Cows

S49.E25 ∙ Holy Cash Cows

Mon, Jul 27, 2009
This week on Four Corners: Holy Cash Cows, a story that exposes the corruption and the lack of accountability that is putting Australia's multi-billion dollar education export industry at risk.
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Terror in Mumbai

S49.E26 ∙ Terror in Mumbai

Sun, Aug 02, 2009
It was the 26th November 2008 when ten heavily armed gunmen took over a fishing boat in the Arabian Sea and headed for the city of Mumbai on the west coast of India. An hour later their killing spree began.
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Interview: Paul Ducklin

S49.E28 ∙ Interview: Paul Ducklin

Sun, Aug 16, 2009
Australia may be one of the most internet-connected countries on earth, with a super-fast broadband network on the way. But now the experts are warning there's danger with cyber crooks roaming the super highway.
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Kids Doing Time

S49.E29 ∙ Kids Doing Time

Sun, Aug 23, 2009
How a state government's "get tough on crime" policy is condemning hundreds of young people to life in jail.
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Conspiracy 7/7: The London Bombings

S49.E30 ∙ Conspiracy 7/7: The London Bombings

Sun, Aug 30, 2009
The BBC's Conspiracy Files investigates a range of remarkable claims that have been made after the bomb attacks on London's transport system four years ago. Why did the government claim the bombers had travelled to London on a train that didn't run on that day? Did Israeli security forces know of the attacks in advance and then warn their officials visiting London not go near the targeted locations? These are just some of the remarkable claims being made.
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The Last Chance Motel

S49.E33 ∙ The Last Chance Motel

Sun, Sep 20, 2009
The Last Chance Motel: What do you do when you've lost your job, lost your home and you have three kids to feed? Reporter Sarah Ferguson spends time with Australia's new homeless.
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Terror in the Skies

S49.E34 ∙ Terror in the Skies

Sun, Sep 27, 2009
The gripping inside story of the plot to blow up seven international jet airliners using bombs disguised as bottles of soft-drink. It was a plan aimed to kill thousands. In the end it was was foiled only because of remarkable work from the intelligence services and police in Britain.
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Off the Rails

S49.E35 ∙ Off the Rails

Mon, Oct 05, 2009
How a war within the New South Wales Labor Party has destroyed the government's credibility and left the nation's biggest economy without the most basic services.
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Will the Son Also Rise

S49.E36 ∙ Will the Son Also Rise

Sun, Oct 11, 2009
The story of James Packer, his attempt to create a global gaming empire and the business gambles that cost him billions
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Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail

S49.E37 ∙ Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail

Sun, Oct 18, 2009
Reporter/producer Paul Moreira tries to find out where the US$18 billion, given by major Western powers, has gone in Afghanistan. He follows the money trail from Europe to the suburbs of Kabul, confronting security guards employed by Afghan warlords and talking to aid organisations, asking them to explain how they have spent millions of dollars.
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Lethal Force

S49.E38 ∙ Lethal Force

Sun, Oct 25, 2009
An investigation that asks if police are being adequately trained to deal with potentially violent situations involving mentally ill people.
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Malcolm

S49.E40 ∙ Malcolm

Sun, Nov 08, 2009
The inside story of the issue, the people and politics that threaten to tear apart the once powerful Federal Coalition.
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