File on 4 Podcast
1) Adoption: The Blame Game
File on 4 Investigates discovers a world of lies and blame within adoption in the UK. The BBC has conducted the most extensive Freedom of Information request ever into adoptions that have broken down,...Show More
2) Multi-cancer testing - hype or hope?
Multi-cancer detection tests or MCDs can detect many cancers through a simple blood test. Many detect fragments of cancerous DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood. They ca...Show More
3) The IT bug that's caused chaos in the courts
An ambitious plan to digitalize the courts was meant to remove the need for hundreds of thousands of paper documents. But File on 4 Investigates has discovered an IT system, introduced as part of a £1...Show More
4) Chemsex: Hidden Pleasures, Hidden Harms
File on Four explores the risks some gay men are taking by habitually mixing their sex lives with drug use. The practice, known as Chemsex has been on the gay scene for more than a decade. It involve...Show More
5) High Stakes: Gambling in the armed forces
File on 4 Investigates examines the scale of problem gambling in the armed forces and the devastating impact on those serving, veterans and their families. A new study seen exclusively by the team rev...Show More
6) Abused for Our Food
When journalist Georgie Styles is sent unpublished videos of farm workers in Britain being ‘treated like animals’, she begins to investigate the dark side of our food system.She uncovers numerous refe...Show More
7) Youth Justice: The project keeping young offenders out of custody
A van selling coffee and sandwiches from an office car park doesn’t sound like anything special, but there’s one in Swindon helping to keep young offenders out of custody. It’s part of an approach bei...Show More
8) Swiped. Inside London's phone theft epidemic
Up to 80,000 phones were stolen in London’s streets and transport network in 2024, according to the Metropolitan Police. As File on 4 Investigates discovers, gangs are targeting unlocked phones. We di...Show More
9) Inside the Migrant Hotel
It's a familiar story from the outside. Around 32,000 people are housed in migrant hotels around the UK and protests outside them have been violent and vocal.Sue Mitchell has spent the summer getting ...Show More
10) A Prison Inspector Calls
In a broadcasting first, the BBC has followed a team from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons as it investigates conditions in a prison near Rugby in Warwickshire. The result is a unique insight i...Show More