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Series 2014

Season 54 • 2014

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1. This Trucking Life

Long haul truckies say they're being pushed to the brink by big business and government with lethal results.

2014-02-0345 min

2. 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.

2014-02-1845 min

3. 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.

2014-02-1745 min

4. 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.

2014-02-2445 min

5. 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.

2014-03-0345 min

6. 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.

2014-03-1045 min

7. Drawing the Line

An investigation of the intelligence operation that's caused friction in Australia's relationship with East Timor. Marian Wilkinson reports.

2014-03-1745 min

8. The Dancing Shiva

Quentin McDermott investigates the scandal that's engulfing the National Gallery. Were our finest art experts duped?

2013-03-2445 min

9. 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?

2013-03-3145 min

10. 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.

2014-04-0745 min

11. End of the Road

The car manufacturing industry is on the way out, so what's the real impact? Stephen Long reports.

2014-04-1445 min

12. Day of Days

Four Corners commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

2014-04-2145 min

13. 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.

2014-04-2845 min

14. Banking Bad

Putting the spotlight on a top bank's financial planners. Was it bad advice or just greed? Adele Ferguson reports.

2014-05-0545 min

15. 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.

2014-05-1245 min

16. 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.

2014-05-1945 min

17. 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.

2014-05-2645 min

18. The Pope's Revolution

Can Pope Francis reform a Church weighed down by scandal and controversy?

2014-06-0245 min

19. 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.

2014-06-0945 min

20. 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?"

2014-06-1645 min

21. 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.

2014-06-2345 min

22. 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.

2014-06-3045 min

23. 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.

2014-07-0745 min

24. 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.

2014-07-1545 min

25. 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)

2014-07-2145 min

26. 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)

2014-07-2845 min

27. 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)

2014-08-0445 min

28. 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)

2014-08-1145 min

29. 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.

2014-08-1845 min

30. 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.

2014-08-2545 min

31. The White Widow

The story of the woman dubbed the White Widow, now one of the world's most wanted terror suspects.

2014-09-0145 min

32. 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.

2014-09-0845 min

33. 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.

2014-09-1545 min

34. Made in Thailand

Inside the surrogacy industry. Debbie Whitmont reports.

2014-09-2245 min

35. 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)

2014-09-2945 min

36. 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)

2014-09-3045 min

37. Privacy Lost

How governments use internet providers to spy on you.

2014-10-0645 min

38. 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.

2014-10-1345 min

39. 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.

2014-10-2045 min

40. The Enemy Within

Investigating the Green on Blue killing of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Quentin McDermott reports.

2014-10-2745 min

41. Gangster Jihad

Khaled Sharrouf: jihadist or simply a criminal? Marian Wilkinson reports.

2014-11-0345 min

42. 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.

2014-11-1045 min

43. Being Me

The story of girls and boys, born in the wrong body and their struggle to be who they are. Janine Cohen reports.

2014-11-1745 min

44. In Our Care

How caregivers preyed on the vulnerable, unable to defend themselves. Nick McKenzie reports.

2014-11-2445 min