Four Corners

AU, 1961

TV show

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Four Corners is Australia’s longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Broadcast on ABC1 in Australia, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2021. Founding producer Robert Raymond and his successor Allan Ashbolt did much to set the ongoing tone of the program.

Based on the Panorama concept, the program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism, and broken many high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show’s epoch-making 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales.

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Credits

Duration

45:00

Production places
AU
Production dates
1961

On other websites

View at www.abc.net.au

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-tv-1384

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

News

TMDB-TV

1384

Wikidata

Q5475096

Collected

651 times

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