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File on 4

Summary: A podcast offering Radio 4's award winning, flagship investigative series File on 4.

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Podcasts:

 FileOn4: Where have all the Nurses gone? 27 Jan 15 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:09

Where have all the nurses gone? In the middle of a winter crisis why is the NHS so short of staff and how much is it costing to plug the gaps?

 FileOn4: Benefit Sanctions 20 Jan 15 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:08

Benefit sanctions are among the reasons for the use of food banks. Allan Urry investigates the sanctions system and asks why so many people feel they've been unfairly penalised.

 FileOn4: Prison Violence 13 Jan 15 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:59

Violence in many of Britain's prisons is at a record high. Twenty five years after the Strangeways riots, is the system again reaching breaking point?

 FileOn4: Continuing Healthcare: The "Secret Fund" 18 Nov 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:07

Is demand for continuing nursing care about to tip health service finances over the edge? The Government is creating a long-term care fund but does it have a long-term future?

 FileOn4: The Last Taboo? 28 Oct 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:16

After recent cases in which Asian men were convicted of grooming white girls, Manveen Rana asks whether there is also a hidden problem of child sex abuse within Asian communities.

 FileOn4: Ebola 21 Oct 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:59

Simon Cox investigates why it took so long for the world to wake up to the threat of Ebola. He asks what mistakes were made and if enough is being done now?

 FileOn4: NHS: Testing the Market 14 Oct 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:01

In its biggest outsourcing to date, the NHS in England has invited bidders for contracts to run cancer and end-of-life care in parts of the Midlands. Hugh Pym investigates.

 FileOn4: Fraud: The Thin Blue Line 07 Oct 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:35

Are official crime figures failing to capture the rise in fraud? Danny Shaw investigates and asks whether the police have the resources and expertise to tackle the problem.

 FileOn4 Border Security: All at Sea? 30 Sep 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:05

How secure are Britain's borders at a time when the Government is battling illegal immigration across the Channel and trying to monitor extremists returning from fighting abroad?

 FileOn4: Rigged Markets? 23 Sep 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:08

Was LIBOR just the tip of the iceberg? Financial regulators are investigating whether other global markets have been rigged to boost bank profits. Lesley Curwen investigates.

 FileOn4: Abused But Not Heard 16 Sep 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:14

With national and local enquiries into historic sexual abuse, Jane Deith talks to former pupils assaulted at Knowl View School in Rochdale about the effect on their lives.

 FileOn4: Childhood Cancer 15 Jul 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:57

A child with cancer - every parent's nightmare: Are red tape and commercial considerations standing in the way of new drugs which could mean the difference between life and death?

 FileOn4: Late Payments 08 Jul 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:23

The Government wants to help small business by ensuring their bills are paid on time. But can it succeed when even some public sector contracts are leaving companies in trouble?

 FileOn4: A Deadly Dilemma 01 Jul 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:32

Are international regulations designed to stop money and equipment reaching terrorist organisations curtailing vital aid programmes in some of the world's most troubled regions?

 FileOn4: Yarl's Wood 24 Jun 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:32

Are the hundreds of women held at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre safe? Simon Cox investigates calls for the centre to be closed amid claims of sexual abuse and poor health care.

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