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Watch - ´óÏó´«Ã½ One - Panorama Special
On the top floor of a hospital, locked away from their families and friends, a group of men and women are subjected to a regime of physical assaults, systematic brutality, and torture by the very people supposed to be caring for them. In a special programme, Paul Kenyon exposes the truth about a gang of carers out of control and how the care system ignored all the warning signs. This programme has led to arrests and the sparking of a public debate on how we care for our severely disabled loved ones.

Watch - ´óÏó´«Ã½ One - Countryfile
Julia Bradbury walks along the Offa's Dyke National Trail to celebrate its fortieth anniversary and learns how sections of the 177 mile path are being opened up for disabled ramblers.

Listen - Radio 4 - In Touch
Feedback on the (in)accessibility of iPlayer after a recent upgrade and information on other ways of listening to ´óÏó´«Ã½ radio.

Listen - World Service - Health Check
The first of two special programmes about the reality of mental illness in Hong Kong. Claudia Hammond hears from those who have experienced discrimination and talks to mental health campaigners and professionals about the urgent need to expand and modernise mental health care.

Listen - Radio 4 - Frontiers
Our body is the playground for around 100 trillion microbes hiding in our mouth, nose, guts, skin and genitals. In the first in a new series Geoff Watts visits the Human Microbiome Project in the US where they are sequencing the genomes of bacteria which live on our body. New research has suggested that pathogenic microbes could be implicated in a whole host of diseases including obesity, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, arthritis and autism. The hope is that this new research may pave the way for more personalised treatments.

Listen - World Service - Outlook
Kate Allatt was a busy woman until a sudden stroke left her unable to move yet still totally aware of her surroundings. She explains about her ongoing recovery from 'locked in syndrome'.