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Returning: Dateline

SBS quiet achiever Dateline returns next week for its 30th consecutive year on-air.

2014-02-09_1659SBS quiet achiever Dateline returns next week for its 30th consecutive year on-air, hosted by Anjali Rao.

Commissioned in 1984, Dateline is now Australia’s longest-running international current affairs program.

Managing Director Michael Ebeid said: “Dateline is a cornerstone of SBS’s news and current affairs offering and in bringing Australians unique and insightful perspectives on international affairs, it has broadened and deepened our understanding of people, communities and cultures from across the world.”

Executive Producer Peter Charley said: “Dateline is immensely proud of its contribution to journalism in Australia over the past 30 years and its recognition globally as one of the world’s leading international current affairs programs. We will continue to deliver powerful, thought-provoking stories from around the world, with all-access video journalism – which Dateline pioneered – remaining at the heart of our story-telling philosophy.”

For more than 30 years, convicted spy, Christopher Boyce, also made famous by the movie, The Falcon and the Snowman, has been off the radar.

Boyce was convicted of espionage in 1977 and imprisoned for 25 years, after he sold classified information to the KGB.

Since his release, he has been living in anonymity in the mountains of Oregon. Dateline’s, Mark Davis tracked him down for an explosive interview in which Boyce recounts his time working for a CIA subsidiary that provided satellite equipment to the spy base at Pine Gap. 

In his interview, Boyce makes claims that during the Whitlam government, the CIA was interfering in Australian politics and its trade unions.

Also this week, Dateline presents a one-on-one interview between Edward Snowden and German Public broadcaster, NDR, in which the whistle-blower reveals more detail about NSA monitoring of civilians – and speaks about his concerns for his safety

Snowden states “…they (the NSA) said they would love to put a bullet to my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store and have me die in the shower.”

Tuesday, 18 February at 9.30pm on SBS ONE.

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