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ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Index 1 | P a g e ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Index Index Program Guide .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Sunday, 20 December 2020 .................................................................................................................................. 3 Monday, 21 December 2020 ................................................................................................................................. 9 Tuesday, 22 December 2020 ............................................................................................................................... 13 Wednesday, 23 December 2020 ......................................................................................................................... 17 Thursday, 24 December 2020 ............................................................................................................................. 21 Friday, 25 December 2020 .................................................................................................................................. 25 Saturday, 26 December 2020 .............................................................................................................................. 30 2 | P a g e ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Sunday 20 December 2020 Program Guide Sunday, 20 December 2020 6:00am ABC News Update The top stories from ABC News, updating you on the latest headlines and the overnight news from across Australia and around the world. 6:02am Landline Summer (CC,Repeat) This summer Pip Courtney and the Landline team look back at some of the best stories from across rural and regional Australia, meeting interesting people and discussing food, produce, livestock, innovation and more. 6:30am ABC News Regional (CC,Repeat)Final A snapshot of what's going on in regional Australia with a look at the people, events and issues making news from coast to coast in the past seven days. Presented by Miriam Corowa. (Final for 2020) 7:00am Weekend Breakfast (CC) Ease into your Sunday with an intelligent and engaging mix of news, updated information, in-depth analysis, interviews, politics and weather. Presented by Fauziah Ibrahim and Kathryn Robinson plus sport with Jared Coote. 11:00am ABC News (CC) Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 11:30am The Ticket: 2020 - The Year in Sport Tracey Holmes speaks with expert commentators, athletes, powerbrokers and insiders in the sporting industry about the unprecedented challenges of 2020 as sport persevered through the COVID pandemic. 12:00pm ABC News (CC) Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 3 | P a g e ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Sunday 20 December 2020 12:30pm The Business: Summer Series (CC,Repeat) 2020 has been a year unlike any other, challenging businesses, workers and consumers. Elysse Morgan takes a look back at some of the best stories from the year in The Business: Summer Series. 1:00pm ABC News (CC) Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 1:30pm Compass: Sacred Space - James Ricketson (CC,Repeat,PG,This program contains nudity.,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and voices of people who have died) Geraldine Doogue seeks powerful connection with prominent Australians through an investigation of their sacred space. Filmmaker James Ricketson talks about his connection to his home in the northern beaches of Sydney. 2:00pm ABC News Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 2:30pm Stan Grant's One Plus One: Alex McKinnon (CC,Repeat) Alex McKinnon grew up thinking he understood what it was to be a man. He achieved his dream of playing first grade NRL, before one moment changed everything and he had to reinvent himself. He opens up to Stan Grant. 3:00pm ABC News (CC) Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 3:30pm The Ticket: 2020 - The Year in Sport (Repeat) Tracey Holmes speaks with expert commentators, athletes, powerbrokers and insiders in the sporting industry about the unprecedented challenges of 2020 as sport persevered through the COVID pandemic. 4 | P a g e ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Sunday 20 December 2020 4:00pm ABC News Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 4:30pm ABC News Regional (CC,Repeat)Final A snapshot of what's going on in regional Australia with a look at the people, events and issues making news from coast to coast in the past seven days. Presented by Miriam Corowa. (Final for 2020) 5:00pm ABC News (CC) Miriam Corowa presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and coverage of events as they unfold. Plus original reporting, expert analysis and all the updated news, sport, weather and information you need. 5:30pm The World This Week (CC,Repeat)Final Beverley O'Connor presents the week's best international stories as seen by ABC News reporters posted in Europe, North America, China, the Middle East, North Asia, South Asia and the Pacific. (Final for 2020) 6:00pm ABC News Weekend Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 6:30pm Foreign Correspondent: The Rise Of China: Crackdown - Xinjiang (CC,Repeat) In 2014, Stephen McDonell reported on China's crackdown on a resident Muslim community in the remote northwest of the country in what it claims is its own war on terror. 7:00pm ABC News Weekend (CC) Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 7:30pm 7.30: The Interviews: Best of 2020 Leigh Sales looks back at some of the best interviews on 7.30 in 2020. 5 | P a g e ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Sunday 20 December 2020 8:00pm ABC News Weekend Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 8:30pm The Brief: 2020 In Review (Part 1) (Repeat) A fresh behind-the-scenes look at Australian politics, as the ABC's Parliament House Bureau takes you inside the people's house. 9:00pm ABC News Weekend Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 9:30pm Stan Grant's One Plus One: Alex McKinnon (CC,Repeat) Alex McKinnon grew up thinking he understood what it was to be a man. He achieved his dream of playing first grade NRL, before one moment changed everything and he had to reinvent himself. He opens up to Stan Grant. 10:00pm ABC News Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 10:25pm Australian Story: The Only Witness (Part 2) (CC,Repeat) Concluding the two-part story about one man who has killed two people. The man was convicted of killing a cyclist on a lonely road but is still to face charges relating to the shotgun death of his wife six years earlier. 11:00pm ABC Nightly News (CC) Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 11:30pm Back Roads: Nullarbor (Part 1) The Endless Horizon (CC,AD,Repeat,G) Back Roads returns this winter to take you to some of the widest open spaces on Earth. Join Heather Ewart on a journey across the Nullarbor Plain, discovering why people are drawn to this remote landscape and why they stay. 6 | P a g e ABC NEWS Program Guide: Week 52 Sunday 20 December 2020 12:00am ABC News Gemma Veness presents the latest from ABC News, following today's top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold. Plus comprehensive analysis, context and original investigations from ABC reporters around the world. 12:15am Four Corners: The Inside Trade (CC,Repeat) A criminal scandal stretching from the White House to Australia. Stephanie March investigates the insider trading scandal that engulfed
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