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60 Minutes: Nov 18

This weekend on 60 Minutes Liz Hayes interviews Matthew Mitcham about battling addictions.

This weekend on 60 Minutes Liz Hayes interviews Matthew Mitcham about battling addictions, plus stories on brutality in the NSW Police Force and the excellence that is Carole King.

High Dive
Whoever could forget that dive at the Beijing Olympics? Or the look of pure joy on Matthew Mitcham’s face when he realised he’d won gold. But behind the smiles and Matthew’s extraordinary athleticism, all was not as it seemed. You see, there’s another, darker side to Matthew. A tortured childhood, battles with depression and, most disturbingly, the revelation that he was hooked on drugs – addicted to crystal meth or ice, as it’s known. And as Matthew’s life unravelled, he feared he would lose everything he loved and had worked so hard for.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Stephen Taylor

Brute Force
Reckless, dangerous, even thuggish. You’d think we were talking about a violent street gang. But these are the words used by the New South Wales coroner this past week to describe members of that state’s police force. She was ruling on the death of a Brazilian student during a Sydney arrest in March. That young man, Roberto Curti was tackled by eleven officers. He was doused in capsicum spray and tasered 14 times. It was a horrible way to die and one that continues to haunt the close-knit family he’s left behind.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producers: David Alrich, Steven Burling

Song Bird
She’s had one hundred hit singles and written songs for The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Kylie Minogue and Adele. Carole King is, quite simply, the most successful and prolific female songwriter of all time. In fact, over the last fifty years, her music has been recorded by one thousand singers. For those too young or too befuddled to recall the 1960s and early seventies, the songs of Carole King provide a perfect snapshot of the time. It was an age when love and optimism reigned supreme and the earth moved in quite wonderful ways.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Steven Burling, Phil Goyen

7:30pm Sunday on Nine

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