Australia's premier international current affairs program is presented by Mark Corcoran who has spent ten years reporting for Foreign Correspondent from some of the most difficult and dangerous countries in the world. View excerpts
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Egypt's Rubbish People
Reporter: Evan Williams
In Cairo, a magnet for travellers the world over, there’s a dark side of the city you’re never likely to see. It’s a Coptic Christian ghetto called Manshe’et Nasser where people literally live in piles of garbage.
Evan Williams investigates the largely hidden world of the Zabaleen - Arabic for the rubbish people.
Vanuatu - Kava Culture
Reporter: Mark Corcoran
A recent international survey declared Vanuatu’s people to be the happiest on earth, and the islanders claim the root of all that happiness is - a root. To be precise, the kava root.
So Foreign Correspondent presenter Mark Corcoran took himself off to a sandy, thatched bar on Vanuatu’s main island of Efate, knocking back a few shells filled with a grey muddy drink.
All in the name of journalistic investigation - into happiness and claims by some that kava is in fact a health hazard.
