All Episodes
Background Briefing — 255 episodes
The dark reality of Australia's AI dream factory
03 Tammy's Story | New Asylums
02 Tammy's Story | Searching for Safety
01 Tammy's Story | The Red Cup
Introducing | Tammy's Story
03 In Search of the Missing Artist | The Name
02 In Search of the Missing Artist | The Plastic
01 In Search of the Missing Artist | The Sculptor
Introducing | In Search of the Missing Artist
03 The Road to Bondi | Deepfake
02 The Road to Bondi | A Test of Character
01 The Road to Bondi | Father and Son
TRAILER — Introducing The Road to Bondi
06 Hometown Boys | Not the only one
05 Hometown Boys | 'Luke, Maybe'
04 Hometown Boys | The Trial
03 Hometown Boys | The 'Mayoress of Balmoral'
02 Hometown Boys | In the caravan
01 Hometown Boys | Welcome to Balmoral
TRAILER — Introducing Hometown Boys
Long Read | How social media algorithms decide who you are
04 Before and After | Behind the sunscreen
03 Before and After | Under your skin
02 Before and After | For a couple extra inches
01 Before and After | The cost of keeping your hair
Introducing... Before and After
The secret teacher blacklist
05 The Favourite - A Day in Court
04 The Favourite | Full Disclosure
03 The Favourite | Alliyah's choice
02 The Favourite | A marriage proposal
01 The Favourite | Secrets after school
Introducing... The Favourite
The invisible stuff on your blueberries
Long Read | The smart kids who can’t afford to succeed
Long Read | The fight over your backyard
PRESENTS — Criminal Psychology from All in the Mind
Long Read | The Summer of Trump
Dr Mo: The Beast from the Middle East
04 Beef | YouTube detectives uncover PlayStation guru’s shocking secret
02 Beef | Who would shoot a wombat?
01 Beef | Big Rob versus just about everyone in town
INTRODUCING — Beef
Long Read | The hunt for the next pandemic is on our shores
Long Read | Can Wikipedia survive the rise of AI and Trump?
Long Read | Australia: burnout capital, or how to get a career break right
05 Agents of Influence | The letters journalists fear
04 Agents of Influence | The powerbroker unseated by ‘traitors’
03 Agents of Influence | The man whose name is all over Sydney
02 Agents of Influence | The Billionaire's New Sport
01 Agents of Influence | The PM's secret strategists
Introducing... Agents of Influence
Long Read | How deepfakes, nudes and teen misogyny have changed growing up
Long Read | The church’s disappearing women
05 The Invisible Killer | Did police miss a murder?
04 The Invisible Killer | Under the bed
03 The Invisible Killer | Reasonable Doubt
02 The Invisible Killer | 'Who did this?'
01 The Invisible Killer | Doctor’s discovery
More to the story... Kathy Jackson’s missing millions
More to the story... Who controls the Murdoch empire?
More to the story... Meeting your mum as an adult
More to the story... Sex, lies and 'big coconut balls'
More to the Story... My friend, the cop killer
More to the story... Inside a scam factory
03 Births, Deaths, and Marriages | ‘Horror stories’ from inside the funeral industry
02 Births, Deaths and Marriages | Facebook's sperm marketplace
01 Births, Deaths and Marriages | The Wedding Celebrant
The inconvenient patients
The cop accused of sharing a suspect's explicit video
03 | Murdoch's Endgame
02 | Murdoch's Endgame
01 | Murdoch's Endgame
Introducing... Murdoch's Endgame
Has dot art spread too far?
'This must be a joke': the homes for sale without owners' knowledge
Stop and Search | 04 The Botched Backyard Operation
Stop and Search | 03 The Numbers Game
Stop and Search | 02 Last Moments Before Gunshots
Stop and Search | 01 Where's Brad?
Dancing with Bulls
Finding Jean Nassif
Sex, lies & 'big coconut balls' — the clinic that sold a fix to getting old
The agency accused of paying bribes for babies
Notorious 08 | My friend, the cop killer pt 2
Notorious 07 | My friend, the cop killer Pt 1
Notorious 06 | From Sydney to a Syrian prison
Notorious 05 | Killers in the suburbs
Notorious 04 | From top gun to wanted man
Notorious 03 - Crafting a Villain
Notorious 02 | The Prankster
Notorious 01 | Inside the scam factory
Introducing... Notorious
The whistleblowers who stared down threats from Australia's biggest bank
The whistleblower who believed his employer was covering up an oil spill
The whistleblower who exposed Australia’s secretive offshore detention system
The Whistleblower who brought down Australia's Dr Death
The whistleblower who captured the nation — and the man who unmasked her as a fraud
The whistleblower who helped catch a paedophile politician
The Whistleblowers
A mother's message and the hospital that didn't want to hear it
Tears, tea and bloodshed — can violent men ever change?
Finding Jean Nassif
Dancing with Bulls
04 Stop and Search | The Botched Backyard Operation
03 Stop and Search | The Numbers Game
02 Stop and Search | Last Moments Before Gunshots
01 Stop and Search | Where's Brad?
What's the price of a freebirth?
Meet the AI insiders who say it’s time to ‘accelerate or die’
'They use us': The Balinese villagers taking on Russian-backed developers
Summer Season: Prisoner of the State
Summer Season: Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer
Summer Season: False Witness
Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 01 - How the system failed to save two baby girls
Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 02 - How the system failed to save two baby girls
Summer Season: The Whistleblower who helped catch a paedophile politican
Summer Season: The whistleblower who exposed Australia’s secretive offshore detention system
Summer Season: An aspiring doctor from the 'burbs takes on medical schools for elitism
A one-man consulate and a mysterious list: How to get out of Gaza
Hitler, Stalin and Shirley Temple lived in the Australian outback
An aspiring doctor from the 'burbs takes on medical schools for elitism
How an ADHD diagnosis was the start of Natalia’s life unravelling
The whistleblowers who stared down threats from Australia's biggest bank
The whistleblower who believed his employer was covering up an oil spill
The whistleblower who exposed Australia’s secretive offshore detention system
The Whistleblower who brought down Australia's Dr Death
The Whistleblower who captured the nation — and the man who unmasked her as a fraud
The Whistleblower who helped catch a paedophile politican
INTRODUCING — 'The Whistleblowers', a new series from Background Briefing
Can a rape trial be a positive experience?
03 | The outland or the cage
02 | The outland or the cage
01 | The outland or the cage
'What's your p(doom)?' Why AI experts are calculating our doomsday odds
The little-known religious code ruling many major public hospitals
Fashion victims
Inside the battle to keep cocaine out of Australia
False Witness
Grim Prospects | 02
Grim Prospects | 01
The woman who offers one last chance for an Australian visa
Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer
The Fine Print
Prisoner of the State
The Psychedelic Rush
Dead Man's Secrets | 02
Dead Man's Secrets | 01
How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 02
How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 01
The psychiatrist and his star patient
Under the Eye of Iran | 02
Under the Eye of Iran | 01
The tiny device that can cause huge pain
Summer Season | Meet the teens at the frontline of organised crime
Summer Season | Catching a Fugitive | 02
Catching a fugitive | part 1
Summer Season | Is getting quality care at medicinal cannabis clinics just pot luck?
Summer Season | Kidnapping the Gods | 02
Summer Season | Kidnapping the Gods | 01
The little-known religious code ruling many major public hospitals
Has the age of AI already begun?
Pain in Paradise 02 | Byron's Thin Blue Line
Pain in Paradise 01 | What happened in Lateen Lane?
Under the Eye of Iran
The tiny device that can cause huge pain
Is the AFLW ready for Tiwi magic?
A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy
Is getting quality care at medicinal cannabis clinics just pot luck?
Faulty Towers 02 | 'The scummiest landlord in the state'
Faulty Towers 01 | The birdman of Surry Hills
Meet the teens at the frontline of organised crime
Inside the climate activists’ plan to shut down Australia
What happened to the Saudi sisters?
What happened to the Saudi sisters?
The billion dollar industry helping students cheat
Who's developing the wilderness?
The artisan farmers taking on Victoria's meat regulator
The fight for control over Black births
Will any koalas be left in Australia's east by 2050?
What goes on inside Australia's first long COVID clinic?
Kidnapping the Gods | Part 2
Kidnapping the Gods
The teachers are not alright
Why Queensland's sex workers say the law puts their lives at risk
The 'holy grail' of IVF that went wrong
When the floodwater goes, what's next?
The mums accused of poisoning their kids
The end of Australia's biggest coal fired power plant
The quiet drug crisis you haven't heard about
The scientists questioning a serial murder case
Inside aged care's Omicron chaos
Catching a Fugitive | Part 2
Catching a fugitive | part 1
The boss you can't escape from
How COVID chokes a hospital
The kids who broke out of detention
Summer Season: Her name was Mhelody Bruno
Summer Season: A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy
Summer Season: The hidden park of last resort
Summer Season: 'The ghosts are not silent'
Summer Season: The death Uber Eats disowned
Summer Season: The place where people mysteriously disappear
The giant wind farms clearing Queensland bush
The infiltrator who helped hatch a terror plot
The biggest financial scandal you've never heard of
Boom time in carbon farming country
The hidden terror that's splitting people's identities
Vulnerable, unvaxxed, and running out of time
How a conspiracy and a question led to 18 years jail
Untouchable Assets | Part 3
Untouchable Assets | Part 2
Untouchable Assets | Part 1
The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreats
The Sydney security expert helping Afghan journalists escape
'The ghosts are not silent'
What it's like to face terrorism charges
Inside the epicentre of Australia's Delta outbreak
Reality TV's reckoning
A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy
Myanmar: The Spring Revolution
Unmasking Monsters
Her name was Mhelody Bruno
The death Uber Eats disowned
The death Uber Eats disowned
The killer we've invited into the lounge room
How Australians are escaping India's Covid catastrophe
The rural stoush fuelled by our chicken meat obsession
The memo that erased a scandal
The Archbishop, the luxury pad, and the COVID-ravaged aged care home
The hidden park of last resort
The Base Tapes | Part 2
The Base Tapes | Part 1
The small town torn apart by big bets
The place where people mysteriously disappear
The chilling secrets of a Melbourne guru
A nearby nurse and the firefighter left to wait in agony
The fight to stop a tiny battery from killing kids
The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreats
Summer Season: how one school failed its students
Summer Season: This judge’s unfair decisions upended people’s lives. What can be done about it?
Summer Season: He wanted an ambulance. He got a police "dog box".
Summer season: Inside the brazen tax scam where the homeless are made company directors
Buyer Wanted - Mothballed Oil Rig
The billion-dollar sports industry that can't keep up with the cheats
450 days trapped on a cargo ship
How contact tracers confront lies on the COVID frontline
Introducing: Thin Black Line
The Ponzi scheme that preyed on faith
Welcome to Tent City, the underside of WA's coronavirus success story
A horrific playground incident: how one school failed its students
Are these two scholars really a threat to Australia's security?
How banks help criminals get rich: Part 2
How banks help criminals get rich
Assange's extradition: what's really at stake?