File on 4 Investigates
News-making original journalism documentary series, investigating stories at home and abroad.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 469
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Tennis: The Italian Files
Two months ago a File on 4 investigation into match-fixing in tennis made headlines around the world. The programme revealed how tennis authorities had received repeated alerts in the past decade abo…
UK Asylum: A Systems Failure?
As more and more migrants seek asylum in the UK, is the system for processing their applications reaching breaking point? Allan Urry investigates the impact of a drastic reduction in the numbers of c…
Special Guardianships: Keeping Things in the Family?
Special guardianship orders are a way of giving legal status to those - usually grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters - who come forward to care for children when their parents can't. …
Dementia: What Do We Know?
It's estimated there are around 620,000 people in England with dementia. Prime minister David Cameron says fighting the disease is a personal priority and doctors in England have been encouraged to p…
Sunni Shia Splits?
Are international conflicts creating tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the UK?
Shabnam Mahmood reports from both Sunni and Shia communities and reveals how divisive messages from the Middle …
After the Floods - A Tale of Two Cities
The Dutch city of Nijmegen has much in common with the English city of York. Similar in size, both are much visited by tourists because of their histories and architecture. But both also have rivers …
Vaccine Damages
Vaccination has long been one of the greatest weapons in the battle against a range of potentially fatal diseases. Millions of lives have been saved worldwide, and Britain has played a major role in …
NHS Contracts: Tender Issues
File on 4 uncovers the story behind the collapse of one of the biggest health contracts ever put out to tender. Last April an NHS consortium of Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridgeshire and P…
Tennis: Game, Set and Fix?
File on 4 reveals secret evidence of match fixing in tennis and investigates claims that sport's governing bodies have failed to act on repeated warnings about suspect players. The programme has seen…
Bent Cops?
In the first of a new series, Allan Urry investigates claims by former officers from one of Britain's biggest police forces that they've been the victims of crimes committed by their own colleagues. …
An Inside Job
An inside job: the Britons smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK. File on 4 hears from Britons jailed for hiding people in their cars. They reveal why - and how - they did it. They were paid to sm…
Locum Doctors: Bad for Your Health?
How safe are we in the hands of locum staff at NHS hospitals? The Government's crackdown on big fees charged by agencies that hire them out has been making headlines, but what's being done to ensure …
The Billion-Dollar Aid Question
As the crisis in Syria deepens and refugees flock westwards, the UK government insists it is helping with a £1.1bn aid package to neighbouring countries - but is it being spent wisely?
Simon Cox track…
Can Rotherham Recover?
Like other steel communities, Rotherham faces the loss of hundreds of jobs following the recent announcement of redundancies at the local plant. It's the latest blow to a town now synonymous with wid…
Colleges in Crisis
David Cameron has promised three million new apprenticeships by 2020. But Further Education colleges must deliver them against a background of year-on-year cuts - with the axe likely to fall again in…
Dirty Money UK
What does the theft of a billion dollars from Europe's poorest country have to do with a run-down housing estate in Edinburgh? Moldova was robbed of 12% of its GDP by the bafflingly complex financial…
Missing Medicines
Why is the NHS struggling to get hold of some life-saving medicines for its patients? Allan Urry reveals serious concern over the availability of some drugs used in the treatment of cancer and for pa…
Working in the Shadows
With the Government cracking down on migrants working illegally, Simon Cox investigates Britain's shadow economy. He meets illegal workers to ask whether the get-tough message is putting them off. An…
CPS: Prosecutors on Trial
Controversial charging decisions in the cases of Lord Janner, Operation Elveden and a doctor accused of female genital mutilation have brought a hostile reaction in the media to the Director of Publi…
The Cost of a Cuppa
Tea is still the UK's favourite drink - but what's the human cost of a cuppa?
In the first of a new series of File on 4, Jane Deith reports from Assam on the plight of workers on tea plantations which…