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Dateline turns 30

Dateline celebrates 30 years of international stories, with a special edition looking back at some of their 4,000 stories.

2014-10-12_2323Tomorrow night SBS current affairs program Dateline celebrates 30 years of international stories, with a special edition looking back at some of the 4,000 stories, the people and places from 1984 -2014.

The anniversary special features interviews with reporters and producers past and present.

Among the stories featured will be Mark Davis’ The Condemned, which included the first interviews with the so-called ‘Bali 9’ – the Australians sentenced to death for smuggling drugs in Bali. Davis will reveal how he came to personally like the two men on death row after initially being very intimidated by them.

The program will also revisit On Life’s Border, the extraordinary inside story of families fleeing North Korea that was even shown to the White House. It will also explain how it achieved the world exclusive investigation, Lifting the Hood, which provided explosive revelations and interviews on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

These iconic, ground-breaking stories and more will be explored on Tuesday’s special episode with candid revelations from the people that broke them.

They are just some of the more than 4,000 reports and investigations that have brought Dateline 30 years of national and international acclaim, alongside scores of awards including 18 Walkleys, 15 United Nations Media Peace Awards and 2 Logies.

Behind the cameras has always been a dedicated team of video journalists, who’ve escaped bombing and gunfire, and been arrested and interrogated, all in the line of duty.

Travelling to every corner of the world, they’ve been on the frontline of reporting the Cold War, the Arab Spring and, closer to home, the often volatile changes in Pacific politics.

And they’ve brought us stories of some of the world’s most inspirational people… from world leaders to ordinary citizens doing their bit to make the world a better place.

Join us as SBS’s Les Murray and Anjali Rao take us through the most memorable moments from the past three decades, next Tuesday at 9.30pm on SBS ONE.

Tuesday at 9.30pm on SBS ONE.

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