Foreign Correspondent ‘Around the World and Back Again’

ABC1

Sat, 4 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, Current Affairs, WS, CC, Series, Repeat

The secret agents had been buzzing around China Correspondent Stephen McDonell so intrusively he knew he had to make them a part of the story but the moment he made that decision they vanished. What did he do to ensure they'd come rushing back into view to star in his story? What happened when Mark Corcoran found himself in Egypt's Tahrir Square and at the centre of one of 2011’s biggest stories and began to lose his voice? When Japan shook, Mark Willacy was on assignment in Japan's south far from his young family in a shaking, shuddering Tokyo. How did they cope? All the answers ahead as Foreign Correspondent takes you behind some of the year's assignments.

Foreign Correspondent

ABC News

Sat, 4 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, Current Affairs, WS, CC, Series, Repeat

Each week Foreign Correspondent takes you on a unique journey to places few others venture, for a colourful look at the culture and lifestyle of people who don't usually make international headlines.

Foreign Correspondent

ABC News

Sat, 4 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, Current Affairs, WS, CC, Series, Repeat

Each week Foreign Correspondent takes you on a unique journey to places few others venture, for a colourful look at the culture and lifestyle of people who don't usually make international headlines.

Foreign Correspondent

ABC News

Sun, 5 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, Current Affairs, WS, CC, Series, Repeat

Each week Foreign Correspondent takes you on a unique journey to places few others venture, for a colourful look at the culture and lifestyle of people who don't usually make international headlines.

Foreign Correspondent ‘China - The Ka-Ching! Dynasty’

ABC1

Tue, 7 Feb 2012, 30 minutes, Current Affairs, WS, CC, Series

In China they're setting blistering speed records. From the go-fast, rich kids quickly amassing stables of super-cars to the developers building sky-scraping hotels – start to finish – in just 14 days. One local rich list estimates China has almost a million millionaires, 600 billionaires and the numbers keep growing at a staggering rate. Private jets are flying out of showroom hangers at mach 1. The economic transformation of China has been electrifying, but with Europe teetering and the U.S. plodding can the biggest tiger of all keep on roaring? The super-rich you'll meet in our 2012 return certainly think so.