Episode 1: Bad Sport
2016-02-0145 min
Sarah Ferguson presents an investigation into the criminal networks that are threatening the integrity of sport, amidst the uproar over the match fixing revelations in tennis, Linton Besser reports.
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Four Corners Season 56 — Episodes and Where to Watch
43 episodes · first aired 2016-02-01
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Episode guide
Episode 2: Shark Alarm
2016-02-0845 min
What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.
Episode 3: Dying To Dance
2016-02-1545 min
Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
Episode 4: Guns In The USA - Child's Play
2016-02-2245 min
Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.
Episode 5: Catastrophic Failure
2016-02-2945 min
In his first story for Four Corners, reporter Ben Knight travels to Brazil to investigate BHP's responsibility for the Samarco mine disaster that's destroyed lives and polluted an entire river system.
Episode 6: Money For Nothing
2016-03-0745 min
It's the bank that's spent two years rebuilding its reputation after being exposed for ripping off its customers in a devastating financial advice scandal. An explosive corporate investigation by Adele Ferguson.
Episode 7: Safari: Paying To Kill
2016-03-1445 min
The big game and big bucks in Africa's trophy hunting industry. Taking us into the darker world of illegal hunting where lions are tranquilised or partly domesticated to make them easier to shot.
Episode 8: Whatever It Takes
2016-03-2145 min
A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.
Episode 9: State Of Fear
2016-03-2845 min
The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.
Episode 10: The Secrets Of The Super Rich
2016-04-0445 min
This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.
Episode 11: Clive Palmer
2016-04-1145 min
The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.
Episode 12: Inside Europe's Terror Attacks
2016-04-1845 min
In the wake of the attacks in France and Brussels, a BBC Panorama investigation into Islamic State's European terror network and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it.
Episode 13: Bad Blood
2016-04-2545 min
The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.
Episode 14: Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?
2016-05-0245 min
Ben Knight reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.
Episode 15: Callous Disregard
2016-05-0945 min
Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna follows the trail of evidence in the brutal death of a young woman as her family fights for justice.
Episode 16: Supplements and Safety
2016-05-1645 min
Supplements and safety: an investigation into the billion dollar health supplement and vitamin industry. What's in all those pills and could they be doing you harm?
Episode 17: Money And Influence
2016-05-2345 min
As we head into the third week of the election campaign, Four Corners examines how money and influence operates in the shadowy world of political donations.
Episode 18: The Baby Business
2016-05-3045 min
With an increasing number of women turning to fertility treatments to help them conceive a baby, Four Corners investigates, are women being sold false hope by the IVF industry?
Episode 19: Ripped Off
2016-06-0645 min
The scams, fraud and incompetence leaving remote communities exploited and betrayed. Linton Besser journeys almost 5000km across Australia in search of who's to blame.
Episode 20: The Miracle Of Kobani
2016-06-1345 min
We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.
Episode 21: The Deputy And The Dark Horse
2016-06-2045 min
The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.
Episode 22: The Leaders
2016-06-2745 min
With the election only days away, Gold Walkley and Logie Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson interviews Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. What will she ask?
Episode 23: Future Proof
2016-07-0445 min
With startling predictions that more than 5 million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology, we look at the future of work and ask are we preparing our kids for the jobs of the future?
Episode 24: Soldiers Of Allah
2016-07-1145 min
Going undercover with an ISIS terror cell. For six months this intrepid reporter infiltrated and secretly filmed a terrorist cell as they made plans for an attack.
Episode 25: The Race To Dope
2016-07-1845 min
The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.
Episode 26: Australia's Shame
2016-07-2545 min
Australia's Shame: The brutalisation of children behind bars. This confronting investigation by Caro Meldrum-Hanna will send shockwaves around Australia.
Episode 27: Insult To Injury
2016-08-0145 min
Insult To Injury: How the system damages cops with PTSD. Quentin McDermott reports.
Episode 28: Man On A Wire
2016-08-0845 min
Man on a wire: How long can Malcolm Turnbull survive?
Episode 29: Milked Dry
2016-08-1545 min
Milked Dry: The awful price being paid by Australian dairy farmers for the milk we drink. Deb Whitmont reports.
Episode 30: Children On The Frontline
2016-08-2245 min
Children On The Frontline: Escape from Aleppo, one family's extraordinary story of life in the rubble of Syria and their escape to a new life, told through the eyes of four children.
Episode 31: Cyber War
2016-08-2945 min
Cyber War: How hackers are threatening everything from your bank account to the nation's secrets. Linton Besser reports.
Episode 32: Brexit: The Battle For Britain
2016-09-0545 min
The EU referendum result shocked many, but as this BBC film shows the warning signs were there. In interviews with key players, the program charts the tactics & spin used in the campaign.
Episode 33: Rehab Inc.
2016-09-1245 min
Rehab Inc: The high price parents pay to get their kids off ice. Ben Knight reports.
Episode 34: Backing Bourke
2016-09-1945 min
An outback town's bold experiment to save its young people from a life of crime.
Episode 35: Frat Boys
2016-09-2645 min
Inside America's university fraternities. They're the elite clubs where testosterone, alcohol & campus life come together in a potent mix. Normally media shy, one frat house agreed to let the cameras in.
Episode 36: China Rising
2016-10-0345 min
China Rising: The challenges for Australia as China and the US struggle for supremacy in Asia. Peter Greste joins Four Corners for a special report.
Episode 37: For Better Or Worse
2016-10-1045 min
For Better or Worse: How the personal has become political in the fight over same-sex marriage. Four Corners investigates the politics behind the plebiscite debate.
Episode 38: The Forgotten Children
2016-10-1745 min
They're the human face of Australia's tough border policies - the more than 100 refugee children living on Nauru. Debbie Whitmont reports.
Episode 39: Copwatchers
2016-10-2445 min
The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.
Episode 40: Big Fish
2016-10-3145 min
Four Corners investigates the business of salmon farming. A report by Gold Walkley Award-winning journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna.
Episode 41: Crossroads Afghanistan
2016-11-0745 min
Crossroads Afghanistan: A heart-stopping journey on one of the most dangerous roads in the world, right through the heart of Taliban country.
Episode 42: Broken Homes
2016-11-1445 min
Broken Homes: On the frontline of Australia's child protection crisis.
Episode 43: A Sense Of Self
2016-11-2145 min
When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life.
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