File on 4 Podcast
Award-winning current affairs documentary series investigating major issues at home and abroad
Episodes to download
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Speaking Up - Whistleblowing in the NHS
Tue 7 Feb 2017
How are whistleblowers who report unsafe care in the NHS treated?
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Outclassed: The Kids Excluded from School
Tue 31 Jan 2017
An investigation into standards in pupil referral units for children excluded from school.
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The Turnaround Game
Tue 31 Jan 2017
What protection do small businesses have when banks treat them badly?
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The Cost of a Kidney
Tue 24 Jan 2017
How a worldwide shortage of organs is fuelling a dangerous trade in transplant tourism.
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Breaking Into Britain
Tue 17 Jan 2017
An expose of firms offering to produce fake papers to enable migrants to get into the UK.
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A Greek Tragedy
Tue 10 Jan 2017
The plight of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Greece. Is the EU doing enough?
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London Calling
Tue 8 Nov 2016
Is the UK doing enough to tackle corruption and prevent money laundering in the capital?
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The Hidden Homeless
Tue 1 Nov 2016
Are local councils doing enough to provide accommodation for the homeless?
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Behind Closed Doors
Tue 25 Oct 2016
Are foreign domestic workers the forgotten victims of modern slavery in Britain?
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Changing Tides: Can the UK keep its renewable energy promises?
Tue 18 Oct 2016
Holding back the tide: will the UK keep its renewable energy promises?
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How Safe Is Your Pension?
Tue 11 Oct 2016
As the scandal over the collapse of BHS rumbles on, how safe is your pension?
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Transforming Rehabilitation: At What Cost?
Tue 4 Oct 2016
Have major changes to the probation system put the public at risk?
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Little Brother's Big Secrets
Tue 27 Sep 2016
Is the UK's alternative investment market, known as 'little brother', open to fraud?
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Homes Not Hospitals
Tue 13 Sep 2016
Has care for people with learning disabilities improved since Winterbourne View?
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'High Way' to Hell
Tue 6 Sep 2016
'High way' to hell: File on 4 investigates the lethal highs coming to the UK from China.
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What Happened at Aston Hall Hospital?
Tue 19 Jul 2016
Why were children injected with a so-called truth serum at Aston Hall Hospital?
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Trade and Torture
Tue 12 Jul 2016
Is the UK putting trade above concerns about human rights in the United Arab Emirates?
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The Price of PFI
Tue 5 Jul 2016
New revelations about structural problems in schools and hospitals built under PFI schemes
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Whose Right to Buy Is It Anyway?
Tue 21 Jun 2016
Is the scheme that allows council tenants to buy their own homes open to fraud and abuse?
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Child Protection
Tue 14 Jun 2016
What will it take to improve failing children's services - and is change fast enough?
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The Cancer Drugs Fund
Tue 7 Jun 2016
How will the new Cancer Drugs Fund cope with the challenges of rising cost and demand?
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Fair Game
Tue 31 May 2016
Should English football clubs take a closer look at who they turn to for investment?
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An Unsafe Conviction?
Tue 24 May 2016
Thomas Bourke has served more than 20 years for murder, but is his conviction safe?
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Police Firepower
Tue 17 May 2016
Do the plans to recruit more armed police go far enough? Danny Shaw investigates.
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Dirty Oil?
Tue 10 May 2016
Did UK firms win multi-million pound oil contracts through bribes to corrupt officials?
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Tennis: The Italian Files
Tue 15 Mar 2016
Simon Cox reveals more allegations about match-fixing in tennis.
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UK Asylum: A Systems Failure?
Tue 8 Mar 2016
With applications rising, is the UK's asylum process reaching crisis point?
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Special Guardianships: Keeping Things in the Family?
Tue 1 Mar 2016
Placing children with relatives is an alternative to adoption. But does it always work?
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Dementia: What Do We Know?
Tue 23 Feb 2016
Has a drive to increase the diagnosis of dementia and find a cure been effective?
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