Kerry O'Brien
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Four Corners
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Episode 145 min2014-02-03
This Trucking Life
Long haul truckies say they're being pushed to the brink by big business and government with lethal results.
Episode 245 min2014-02-18
Stone Cold Justice
Violence is part of life in the Middle East but have children now become a new target for Israeli security forces? A special investigation by journalist John Lyons.
Episode 345 min2014-02-17
Inside North Korea
Follows the journeys of a small group of North Korean secret film-makers, revealing what life is really like under the new leader Kim Jong Un.
Episode 445 min2014-02-24
Little Boy Lost
A little boy lost and a family's search for answers; how did the police get the investigation so wrong? Geoff Thompson reports.
Episode 545 min2014-03-03
Tales from the Organ Trade
Faced with death, would you illegally pay for a heart, lungs or kidney? Thousands do and the international black market is booming.
Episode 645 min2014-03-10
The Boy with the Henna Tattoo
The inside story of an investigation to rescue an Australian child from an international paedophile ring. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
Episode 745 min2014-03-17
Drawing the Line
An investigation of the intelligence operation that's caused friction in Australia's relationship with East Timor. Marian Wilkinson reports.
Episode 845 min2013-03-24
The Dancing Shiva
Quentin McDermott investigates the scandal that's engulfing the National Gallery. Were our finest art experts duped?
Episode 945 min2013-03-31
How China Fooled the World
An investigation of the Chinese debt binge that's left economists holding their breath. What will be the impact on Australia?
Episode 1045 min2014-04-07
A Lender of Last Resort
How does a mortgage broker, whose work has prompted multiple complaints and is the subject of ongoing police investigation, continue to operate? Linton Besser reports on Australia's shadowy world of unregulated lending.
Episode 1145 min2014-04-14
End of the Road
The car manufacturing industry is on the way out, so what's the real impact? Stephen Long reports.
Episode 1245 min2014-04-21
Day of Days
Four Corners commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
Episode 1345 min2014-04-28
The Manus Solution
Geoff Thompson puts together the most comprehensive account yet of what took place at The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in February 2014.
Episode 1445 min2014-05-05
Banking Bad
Putting the spotlight on a top bank's financial planners. Was it bad advice or just greed? Adele Ferguson reports.
Episode 1545 min2014-05-12
Streets of Shame
A shocking insight into the sexual exploitation of many thousands of poor and vulnerable children in Pakistan, one of the world's most important Muslim nations.
Episode 1645 min2014-05-19
Lost: MH370
How did Malaysian authorities lose a plane, search in the wrong place and ignore significant evidence for so long? Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports on the Mystery of Flight MH370.
Episode 1745 min2014-05-26
The Walking Wounded
It was a high-tech hip replacement that failed. The company tried to cover it up. Now they're exposed. Quentin McDermott reports.
Episode 1845 min2014-06-02
The Pope's Revolution
Can Pope Francis reform a Church weighed down by scandal and controversy?
Episode 1945 min2014-06-09
Chamber of Horrors
With ample evidence of sex abuse in the military, why don't the top brass deal with the abusers? Michael Brissenden reports.
Episode 2045 min2014-06-16
In the Shadow of the Stadiums
Brazil splurged billions to host the soccer World Cup while many live a life of poverty and crime. What price the "beautiful game?"
Episode 2145 min2014-06-23
Democracy for Sale
Democracy is a powerful concept. But it doesn't come cheap. Reporter Linton Besser delves inside the investigation that blew the lid on corruption within Australia's major political parties.
Episode 2245 min2014-06-30
Rupert, Rebekah and Andy
She was the queen of the British tabloids, a faithful and trusted servant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. He was the top aide to the British Prime Minister. But for the past eight months, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been the focus of one of the longest-running criminal trials in British history.
Episode 2345 min2014-07-07
Power to the People
While the rest of the world moves to embrace renewable energy why is Australia drawing back? Four Corners documents the revolution in power generation taking place across the globe.
Episode 2445 min2014-07-15
Rosie's Story
It was a crime that left Australians horrified. The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Luke's mother Rosie tells her story.
Episode 2545 min2014-07-21
Generation Like
Thanks to social media, today's teenagers are able to interact directly with their culture and their heroes, dispensing approval to music, videos, food and clothes, as well as each other. They say that's empowering because they can deliver a verdict instantly. But is this empowerment or a new form of slavery? And are teenagers being manipulated by big corporations and the marketing moguls who see social media as the ultimate marketing tool?(Australia, English)
Episode 2645 min2014-07-28
Cult Of Horrors
He is a self-styled evangelist who told his followers he was The Anointed One, chosen by God to convert the world to his beliefs. In reality, Scott Williams was a cult leader who used his own brand of religion to warp biblical scripture in the pursuit of sex, money and power. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna investigates the rise of Scott Williams and his incredible path around the world and back to Australia, exposing how he created a hell on earth for many followers.(Australia, English)
Episode 2745 min2014-08-04
ISIS Terror in Iraq
They're known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and they are sweeping across Iraq with frightening speed. They brutalise anyone they perceive as an enemy and then show the results in graphic detail, through a co-ordinated campaign on social media. BBC reporter Paul Wood goes into the front lines of this shocking conflict to investigate how and why ISIS or Islamic State, as they now call themselves, are ripping Iraq apart.(Australia, English)
Episode 2845 min2014-08-11
In the Name of the Law
They were sexually abused by the clergy and then found themselves targeted by the Church's lawyers. Why did it happen and who was responsible for the strategy? Reporter Quentin McDermott reveals the systematic way the Catholic Church sought to conceal the sexual abuse of children, using lawyers to minimise the potential financial impact to the organisation.(Australia, English)
Episode 2945 min2014-08-18
Battle for the Reef
Testing claims the Reef is at risk and should be on the UNESCO World Heritage 'in danger' list. Marian Wilkinson reports.
Episode 3045 min2014-08-25
The Hand that Holds the Scalpel
He was a highly paid neurosurgeon, addicted to cocaine and obsessed with sex. Yet despite significant evidence he was running out of control, and the death of a call girl he'd hired, Suresh Nair continued operating in a private hospital. In a joint Four Corners/Fairfax investigation, reporter Tracy Bowden analyses what the NSW Medical Board, Nepean Public Hospital and the Nepean Private Hospital knew about the rogue doctor.
Episode 3145 min2014-09-01
The White Widow
The story of the woman dubbed the White Widow, now one of the world's most wanted terror suspects.
Episode 3245 min2014-09-08
MH17 - Caught in the Crossfire
The horror of flight MH17 and the shocking war that resulted in the plane being shot down. Stephen Long reports.
Episode 3345 min2014-09-15
High Rollers - High Risk?
Australian casinos that target Asian VIP gamblers to boost their profits could run a serious risk of exposure to organised crime, according to a range of law enforcement and security experts. Reporter Linton Besser investigates the drive to entice foreign gamblers to Australia and the implications of that strategy.
Episode 3445 min2014-09-22
Made in Thailand
Inside the surrogacy industry. Debbie Whitmont reports.
Episode 3545 min2014-09-29
The Seduction of Smoking (1)
The tobacco industry is pouring vast amounts of money into developing electronic or e-cigarettes which are claimed to be safer than conventional cigarettes and could save millions of lives. (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 3645 min2014-09-30
The Seduction of Smoking (2)
The tobacco industry is pouring vast amounts of money into developing electronic or e-cigarettes which are claimed to be safer than conventional cigarettes and could save millions of lives. (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 3745 min2014-10-06
Privacy Lost
How governments use internet providers to spy on you.
Episode 3845 min2014-10-13
Fat Chance
This week, reporter Geoff Thompson goes to the Victorian town of Ararat to see if an ongoing community intervention to promote weight loss and better health can work.
Episode 3945 min2014-10-20
Ice Rush
This week on Four Corners, reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna travels through the regions of two states, riding with police and users, to tell the shocking story of towns and people in the grip of ice.
Episode 4045 min2014-10-27
The Enemy Within
Investigating the Green on Blue killing of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Quentin McDermott reports.
Episode 4145 min2014-11-03
Gangster Jihad
Khaled Sharrouf: jihadist or simply a criminal? Marian Wilkinson reports.
Episode 4245 min2014-11-10
Ireland's Lost Babies
The shocking story of how young unmarried Irish mothers were forced to work in work-houses to atone for their sins while their children were taken away from them.
Episode 4345 min2014-11-17
Being Me
The story of girls and boys, born in the wrong body and their struggle to be who they are. Janine Cohen reports.
Episode 4445 min2014-11-24
In Our Care
How caregivers preyed on the vulnerable, unable to defend themselves. Nick McKenzie reports.
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