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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: Elderly Care 28 Jun 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:59

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?

 FileOn4: A Living Death 21 Jun 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:49

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.

 FileOn4: PFI Profits 14 Jun 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:07

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?

 FileOn4: The Iran Connection 07 Jun 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:08

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.

 FileOn4: Air Crashes 05 Apr 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:12

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?

 FileOn4: Memory on Trial 29 Mar 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:55

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.

 FileOn4: Organ Failure 22 Mar 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:06

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

 FileOn4: Egypt's Missing Millions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:04

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.

 FileOn4: Danger at Work 08 Mar 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:10

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.

 FileOn4: Doctors in Charge 01 Mar 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:36

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.

 FileOn4: Airport Woes 22 Feb 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:10

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.

 FileOn4: Shaken Babies 15 Feb 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:09

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.

 FileOn4: Bent Cops 08 Feb 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:12

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.

 FileOn4: Tolerating the Intolerant 01 Feb 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:01

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?

 FileOn4: Homes but no loans | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:59

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.

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