File on 4
Summary: A podcast offering Radio 4's award winning, flagship investigative series File on 4.
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With Britain's biggest private care home provider in financial turmoil, and councils forced to make huge cuts, Fran Abrams asks if the way we pay for elderly care is unsustainable?
As a medical review begins into the care of people in a vegetative state, Ann Alexander asks whether it should be made simpler to end the life of patients in this condition.
Companies are making billions of pounds in profits from a secretive trade in Private Finance Initiative contracts. But why are taxpayers able to get so little detail?
With parts of the Arab world in turmoil, and uncertainty after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, Allan Urry investigates claims Iran has been stepping up its support for terrorism.
The investigation following an air disaster is supposed to make air travel safer and stop further accidents. But do the reports always get to the truth about why planes crash?
Do we understand enough about how memory works to properly assess evidence in sex abuse cases when allegations date back decades? Jackie Long speaks to victims and those accused.
Three people die every day in the UK because of the shortage of organs for transplant. Is the NHS doing enough to ensure more suitable donors are available
As banks begin the task of tracing missing money stolen from the Egyptian people, Fran Abrams investigates the corruption that lay behind the Mubarak regime.
After the UK's first corporate manslaughter conviction is safety at work really improving? Morland Sanders hears claims that some employers are still too easily flouting the law.
The Government plans to hand control of the £80 billion NHS budget in England to family doctors. But are GPs good managers and do they offer value for money? Gerry Northam reports.
After the disruption caused by snow, Julian O'Halloran examines the record of airport operator BAA and asks whether Britain's airport woes run deeper than bad weather.
Andrew Hosken examines claims of a dirty tricks campaign over Shaken Baby Syndrome and hears calls from one of the country's leading pathologists for an inquiry.
Following a series of trials where police officers have been jailed, Allan Urry investigates how police are drawn into crime and asks if more should be done to stop them.
In the wake of growing religious extremism in Pakistan, are our authorities doing enough to curb the fanatics now targeting sects and religions among Britain's ethnic minorities?
With banks chasing profits and affordable mortgages harder to find. Michael Robinson asks what impact the new housing freeze will have on Britain's economy.