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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 33 sec.) ; 172257669 bytes |
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Foreign Correspondent's teams became paparazzi fodder in Italy, almost expired in the Congolese jungle, directed camel drivers in the Chinese desert for best effect, thundered through the forlorn streets of Detroit to a Motown soundtrack, stumbled upon a revealing mobile phone diary shot inside the Mumbai siege, shed tears for Ethiopian mothers and made a difference in Antarctica.They're just some of the fascinating moments from another action packed reel of powerful, poignant and provocative reports from 2009.Sometimes in this job you do think to yourself I'm pretty bloody lucky to be doing this.STEPHEN MCDONELL CHINA CORRESPONDENTChina Correspondent Stephen McDonell reveals how he and his Walkley-nominated camera operator Rob Hill managed to film some of the year's most memorable images - Kashgar-bound Camel drivers wandering over the tops of desert dunes enroute to the Uighur capital.'Obviously you'd go around the back and you'd go the most direct route. But filmically it's not the best way. So we were saying to them, no, no, over you go, over that dune, and then over the next one. As it turned out it was quite beautiful.' STEPHEN MCDONELL.In the micro-wave heat of the Congolese jungle, Eric Campbell reveals how he and his crew thought they'd trekked themselves to expiration.'The women in the Congo do that same walk every day, carrying all the equipment and food and water for the miners and it was almost embarrassing that there's two grown men passing out on the road and there's a little old lady with a 100 kilogram load on her back coming up and asking are we okay.' ERIC CAMPBELL.Former US Correspondent Tracy Bowden tells of realising a lifelong dream to take in Detroit after growing up in motor industry family and hearing so much about America's industrial Oz. Trevor Bormann tells how he happened upon some of the most gripping images of the year - the mobile phone diary of an Australian businessman trapped inside the Oberoi hotel during the Mumbai siege.Producer Mary Ann Jolley reveals how she and her crew were moved to tears exposing the cruel flaws in the Ethiopian adoption industry. And host Mark Corcoran takes us back to the world's southern ice cap to reveal how Foreign Correspondent's coverage made a practical difference.'The default position is so many places we go seems to be one of showing us incredible courtesy and hospitality. And if approached in the right way with a degree of sensitivity the more they're willing to share their lives and what's happened to them. I get quite humbled by that.' MARK CORCORANThe final program for the year promises to be quite a ride for the growing number of viewers who've put Foreign Correspondent on their unmissable list in 2009 |
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Broadcast 2009-11-10 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Adopted children.
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Cameleers.
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Hiking.
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Motor vehicle industry.
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Terrorism.
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Wiretapping.
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Americas.
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China.
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Ethiopia.
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India -- Mumbai.
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Streaming video
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Alberici, Emma, contributor
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Ann Jolley, Mary, contributor
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Bormann, Trevor, contributor
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Bowden, Tracy, contributor
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Campbell, Eric, contributor
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Corcoran, Mark, host
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Fowler, Andrew, contributor
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McDonnell, Stephen, contributor
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