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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 min. 13 sec.) ; 181858561 bytes |
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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.Stephen McDonell isn't paranoid. He's sure his phone calls are being bugged and his emails are being hacked. And what's more strange, shadowy figures are following him - tailing his crew-van, hiding behind pot-plants, keeping an eye on him from across the road as the Foreign Correspondent crew investigates the subterranean Christian church in China. But when he and camera operator Rob Hill decide to film the secret agents they're suddenly nowhere to be seen."They'd been following us for five days then - surprise, surprise - they're not there. We couldn't believe It! What are we what are we going to do? We haven't got enough of them following us so how can we tell this story?" - Stephen McDonell A little ingenuity, a quick phone call and suddenly the place is crawling with secret agents again and Stephen and Rob have their cast. How did he do it?The story behind the making of True Believers is just one fascinating chapter in Around the World and Back Again, a behind-the-scenes reprise of the program's stunning, wide-roaming, wide-ranging year. Previous back-tracks like 2010's Notes From the Road and 2009's Thanks for Watching have been among Foreign Correspondent's most popular programs as reporters bring you stories about their stories. Intimate, candid and revealing.Veteran correspondent Mark Corcoran tells the story of losing his voice during the course of covering Egypt's revolution in and around Tahrir Square, holding on long enough to file his riveting story Salma in The Square and returning home to a surgery and deep concerns that he'll be able to talk at all. North Asia Correspondent Mark Willacy tells of his fears for his family as an earthquake rocks Japan and of his hopes of finding a pesky little boy he'd met on an earlier assignment in the north that was now ground zero of a devastating tsunami. Willacy's The Boy on the Bike was one of 2011's most moving programs.Eric Campbell has plenty of anecdotes from his journey into the rare Himalayan air in search of an intriguing super-valuable creature for The Secret Garden, Michael Brissenden chimes in with some insights into his visit with the Latter Day Saints in The Mormon Moment while Zoe Daniel reflects on the languid, lumbering cycle of change in her backyard recalling her clandestine meeting with Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi for The Lady on The Lake and the legacy of a bloke who'd been there decades before chasing and securing an interview with the democracy icon. And so Foreign Correspondent recalls and honours a trailblazer, Paul Lockyer."And looking at some of Paul's old travels around South East Asia, particularly in Burma, some old footage of Paul travelling on the trail from Mandalay and meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi really did give me this sense of following him 20 or 30 years after he was here. And you know not that much has changed. The old pictures of Rangoon look much the same, Aung San Suu Kyi is equally beautiful just a few years older and we are still talking about her and hoping for some sort of democratic change in Burma. And it really made me think that 30 years is just the blink of an eye." - Zoe Daniel Don't miss Around The World and Back Again |
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Broadcast 2011-11-22 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Earthquakes -- Social aspects.
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Molds (Fungi) -- Health aspects.
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Mormons.
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011)
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Japan.
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China.
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Nepal.
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Streaming video
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Brissenden, Michael, reporter
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Campbell, Eric, reporter
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Corcoran, Mark, reporter
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Daniel, Zoe, reporter
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McDonell, Stephen, reporter
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Willacy, Mark, reporter
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Willacy, Suzie, contributor
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