Alan Kohler with analysis and comment on the events and issues driving investors, entrepreneurs and big business.

Hosted by Barrie Cassidy, Insiders is a fast-moving treatment of Australian national affairs with interviews, discussion, and analysis.

From Macao to London, Geneva and Shanghai, this dectective story into a hermetic and secret world investigates what is bound to become a scandal of international proportions. The question has to be asked: Will this be the death of competitive sports?

ABC's rural affairs program which has a weekly round up of commodities, rainfall reports and rural stories which reflect life on the land in Australia.

The challenge to complete the Sagrada Familia Church is told by kiwi architect Mark Burry and the dedicated team of architects and artisans who have spent years of their lives immersed in unlocking the secrets of Gaudi's liquid stone. Using cutting-edge 21st century technology hand in hand with traditional artisan techniques, for the first time in its history, this famously 'unfinishable' building is close to being realised.

What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed, your best friend's a heavy metal devotee and then you fall in love at 12 and three quarters years old? It can only mean trouble, worry, mega-embarrassment and some wild, wild times. Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, and his family have just moved to the most remote town on earth, Angelus. For Lockie this is a TOTAL LIFE DISASTER: no friends, new school and a house that is truly in danger of disappearing into a swamp... but then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay, this weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen.
Through the eyes of Lockie Leonard we view the truly mixed-up, yet very normal life of Lockie, his family and friends.

Skin lightening is a global big business. The market for cosmetics to lighten darker skin is reported to be worth millions - and journalist Anita Rani is on a journey to find out why. Starting in her own family, with her mother's preference for lighter skin, she explores the pressures within the Asian community that lead a growing number of people to want to 'lighten up'. Skin-lightening cosmetics are available both legally and illegally worldwide. Many illegal creams contain banned chemicals, which pose health risks and can cause irreversible damage. Anita goes undercover to see how readily available they are, and she meets one woman who regrets ever using them. She takes a hard look at the businesses that make money on the promise of lightening dark skin, and tackles the cosmetic distributors and lifestyle magazines that promote and advertise skin-lightening products.

From an international career in movies and television as one of Australia's favourite personalities, Paul Mercurio now turns his attention to another of his passions - food. In Mercurio's Menu, Paul is tour host and resident cook, as he escorts viewers around Australia. Food production in all of its diversity will feature in the series, as Paul visits farms and producers of fresh food.

Australia's favourite home-cooking show is state versus state, plate against plate, as 12 teams-of-two from NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and, for the first time, Tasmania attempt to out-dine and out-wine each other to see whose kitchen rules.