Four Corners

Australia is in the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression with decades of economic growth brought to a halt as the result of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. More than six months on from the closure of our borders and the extensive restrictions placed on how we work and play, Four Corners investigates the financial fallout for everyday Australians and what the future may hold. The program analyses why specific locations and industries were so vulnerable to the shutdown and explores what it will take for Australia to recover.

Over three years, UK police tracked a family crime group who kept their victims in squalid conditions and stole wages to fund their own lifestyle. The trial that followed unmasked the family as the operators of Britain's largest modern slavery ring. With exclusive access to both the police investigation and the court case, the BBC's Panorama program captured the dramatic events as they unfolded. The case provides an insight into the staggering scale of modern slavery across the world.

In conflict zones around the world, battles are increasingly being fought, not just by armies, but by private military contractors operating as guns for hire. These mercenaries live in a shadowy world away from the public eye where the normal rules of combat don't apply. Their work usually remains secret unless something goes very wrong. Four Corners investigates this murky world and the Australian military men at the heart of it.