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- 🇬🇧GB · Documentary#34100K to 300K
- 🇦🇺AU · Documentary#1105K to 30K
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Fake Marriages - The real story
Jun 23, 2026
37m 21s
Sins of the past: Should the Church of England pay for its links to slavery?
Jun 16, 2026
37m 43s
Tricked into pregnancy? The Liv Nervo story
Jun 9, 2026
37m 46s
Hair Strand Tests in the Family Court
May 26, 2026
37m 07s
Adding Up: How Councils meet the costs of Special Educational Needs
May 19, 2026
37m 27s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() Fake Marriages - The real story | File on 4 Investigates how Immigration Enforcement officers are tackling sham marriages. Claire Jones follows Home Office officials as they apprehend people entering into, and organising fake marriages in order to circumvent the UK’s immigration laws. She discovers details of criminal gangs charging people up to £30,000 for a partner and 'marriage pack', a set of photos and documents designed to create a convincing back story of the fake relationship. After File on 4 Investigates asked the Home Office why more statistics are not available on suspected fake marriages, they have now committed to regularly publishing these numbers 'in due course'. Presenter: Claire Jones Producer: Ashley Kennedy Editor: Tara McDermott Production Co-ordinators: Tim Fernley & Tom Dunster Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford | 37m 21s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Sins of the past: Should the Church of England pay for its links to slavery? | The Church of England is confronting difficult questions over a £100 million fund to address its historic links to slavery. Aleem Maqbool hears from clergy, historians and politicians as he explores the arguments over reparations, responsibility and whether the Church can make amends for sins of the past.Presenter: Aleem Maqbool Producers: Hayley Mortimer & Catherine Wyatt Technical Producer: Cameron Ward Production Co-ordinators: Tom Dunster & Tim Fernley Editor: Tara McDermott | 37m 43s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Tricked into pregnancy? The Liv Nervo story✨ | reproductive coerciondomestic abuse+3 | Liv Nervo | NERVO | — | Liv Nervoreproductive coercion+4 | — | 37m 46s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Hair Strand Tests in the Family Court✨ | family courthair strand tests+5 | — | — | — | hair strand testsfamily court+5 | — | 37m 07s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Adding Up: How Councils meet the costs of Special Educational Needs✨ | Special Educational Needscouncil funding+4 | — | BBC Radio 4BBC News Data Journalism team | EnglandWhitley Bay+1 | Special Educational Needscouncil funding+5 | — | 37m 27s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Locked and Downloaded: The rise in 3D printed guns✨ | 3D printed gunscrime+4 | — | National Crime AgencyFile on 4 Investigates+1 | — | 3D printed gunsUK crime+3 | — | 38m 00s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Duped in Dubai✨ | financetraining courses+4 | — | BritishDubai | — | Dubaifinance+5 | — | 38m 59s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Searching for Soldier Dad✨ | DNA investigationmilitary history+3 | — | — | KenyaNanyuki+2 | DNA detectivesBritish soldiers+5 | — | 37m 24s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() The Experiments✨ | medical abusechildren's welfare+3 | — | BBC Radio 4Whistledown | West Germany | medical experimentsWest Germany+3 | — | 36m 39s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() Are white working class girls falling behind?✨ | educationdisadvantage+4 | Hayley Mortimer | Department for Education | England | white working class girlsGCSE results+5 | — | 37m 11s | |
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| 3/31/26 | ![]() Sunshine and Secrets: The hidden side of IVF✨ | IVFdonor anonymity+3 | — | BBC Radio 4 | Northern Cyprus | IVFsperm donor+5 | — | 37m 16s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() The battle for hearts and lungs: Transplants in trouble.✨ | transplantationhealthcare+3 | — | NHS EnglandBBC Radio 4+1 | — | heart transplantlung transplant+5 | — | 37m 38s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Fight on the Right: The MAGA Civil War✨ | MAGA movementpolitical schism+5 | — | MAGAFox News+2 | — | MAGADonald Trump+7 | — | 38m 15s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Bogus self-employment - who pays the price?✨ | bogus self-employmentemployment rights+5 | — | BBC Radio 4Employment Rights Act (2025) | — | bogus self-employmentEmployment Rights Act+5 | — | 37m 27s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() No CCTV: When train attacks go unrecorded✨ | sexual harassmenttrain safety+4 | — | British Transport PoliceBBC | EnglandWales+2 | sexual violenceCCTV+5 | — | 37m 41s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Can boxing look after its own?✨ | boxinghealth issues+4 | — | BBC Radio 4Saudi Arabia+2 | — | boxinghealth problems+4 | — | 36m 46s | |
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Is the answer to the NHS bed crisis virtual?✨ | NHS bed crisisvirtual wards+4 | — | NHSEngland | — | NHSvirtual wards+5 | — | 37m 59s | |
| 2/5/26 | ![]() Missing Billions✨ | financial systembank branch closures+5 | Steve WebbHelen Boyd+4 | NHSSouth East Coast Ambulance Service+8 | — | missing billionsfinancial assets+5 | — | 36m 30s | |
| 1/27/26 | ![]() I accused a policeman of rape but I ended up on trial | When a woman reported an allegation of rape against a serving police officer, she found herself in the dock, charged with perverting the course of justice. File on 4 Investigates hears how she went from being a potential victim to a suspect accused of lying. Over the past decade, hundreds of rape complainants in England and Wales have been investigated for making false allegations. The programme examines when and why the justice system turns on those who come forward, and asks whether the safeguards meant to protect potential victims are being properly applied.Producer: Hayley Mortimer Presenter: Rebecca Woods Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley Editor: Tara McDermottDetails of organisations offering help and support for the issues raised are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline | 37m 53s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Thin on Information? Hair loss drug Finasteride | File on 4 Investigates whether the risks associated with the popular hair loss drug Finasteride are understood, after a 2024 review by UK drug safety regulator the MHRA prompted by a lack of awareness of the drug’s side-effects. Finasteride’s most common side effects are reduced libido and erectile dysfunction, affecting more than one in a hundred patients. Some people also report low mood and suicidal thoughts. As Johnny I'Anson discovers some hair loss clinics are failing to adequately warn customers at the consultation stage of the sexual side effects assocated with Finasteride.The drug, which is highly effective at halting hair loss, is only available by private prescription for hair loss purposes. But File on 4 Investigates discovers influencer accounts on the social media site TikTok promoting finasteride, also offering discounts for Finasteride with Manual, a popular UK men's health company. A lawyer expert told us that the videos we found constituted advertising. As a prescription-only medicine, it’s illegal to advertise finasteride to the public like this. This programme flagged the videos to TikTok, and they have since been removed. The company has also banned three of the accounts promoting the drug, saying they breached its rules. Manual said it was not involved in the making of the influencers’ videos.Presenter: Johnny I'Anson Producer: Rob Byrne Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley Editor: Tara McDermottDetails of organisations offering help and support with mental health are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline | 37m 46s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | ![]() No Win No Fee... No thanks? | File on 4 Investigates reveals new data showing a significant rise in housing disrepair claims, now a growing market for unscrupulous No Win No Fee lawyers. Adrian Goldberg asks, has the Solicitors Regulation Authority learned its lessons from the collapse of the law firm SSB which left hundreds of householders with huge legal bills, and are they able to protect vulnerable social housing tenants from potentially risky NWNF claims? File on 4 Investigates have been told by 5 major housing providers across England and Wales that housing disrepair claims have been growing significantly. One social housing provider in the South of England with an estate of 85,000 homes has told us its seen a 375% rise in the number of legal claims launched by tenants in the last 5 years. We speak to John Golding, a 74 year old pensioner living in a housing association flat in Staffordshire about how a canvasser knocking on his door tried to pressurise him into pursuing a housing disrepair claim with a Manchester based No Win No Fee solicitors' firm.Reporter: Adrian Goldberg Producer: Jim Booth Additional research: Laura Longworth Technical Producers: Richard Hannaford & Cameron Ward Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley Editor: Tara McDermott | 37m 47s | ||||||
| 12/30/25 | ![]() Can cash grants help end homelessness? | Do you give homeless people cash? Many people fear any donation will be misspent but a ground-breaking study in the UK is currently recruiting 125 homeless people to receive a large one-off cash payment, paid directly to them. There's no restrictions on what they can buy with the money. It can be used for anything, it’s entirely up to the individual how they choose to spend it. The aim of the project is to see if it will help people move on from homelessness for good. With exclusive access to the ongoing study, Michael Buchanan follows some of those who’ve been given the cash to see how the money is being spent and what impact it‘s having on their lives.Reporter: Michael Buchanan Producers: Emma Forde and Rob Byrne Editor: Tara McDermott Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley | 37m 33s | ||||||
| 12/16/25 | ![]() Firefighting's forever chemical legacy | Industrial firefighting foams are an essential part of on-site safety in UK factories. But for decades some of these familiar canisters contained potentially dangerous, toxic chemicals. File on 4 Investigates discovers that 3M the multi-billion dollar chemical company responsible for producing the chemicals knew about the risks as early as the 1960s because their own internal studies on animals and tests on workers indicated a possible increase in rates of cancer. Despite this, the company failed to warn its workers of the dangers associated with using the foams for decades and was involved in an environmental accident at one of its sites that led to the chemicals being released into a Welsh river.The programme obtained never seen before documents showing the regulator warning the company it thought it had committed an offence but choosing not to prosecute it.In 2004, with evidence of the risks to the environment of the two specific forever chemicals PFOS and PFOA, a report commissioned by the government recommended any remaining firefighting foams containing the chemicals be incinerated. But we discover in the years after that companies struggled to dispose of legacy stock of foams, and, appearing unaware of the unofficial advice, discharged them straight into the sewer with no treatment, in one case with permission from the water company.3M said that the health and safety of its workers and their families were “critical priorities" for the company.Reporter: Esme Stallard Producer: Anna Meisel Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley Editor: Tara McDermott | 37m 53s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | ![]() An unholy row over bishop accused of bullying. | Anne Dyer is a trailblazer - becoming the first female Bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church when she was appointed more than seven years ago. But since then, accusations of bullying and misconduct have dominated her period in charge - even for a time leading to her suspension and calls for her resignation. Bishop Dyer denies any wrongdoing, while the church itself acknowledges there are deep wounds within the diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney. Now File on 4 Investigates has discovered new complaints against the bishop, which she says are "totally without merit".Reporter: Steve Swann Producer: Fergus Hewison Editor: Tara McDermott Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford | 37m 44s | ||||||
| 11/28/25 | ![]() 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, finding that more than 1,000 adopted children in the UK have returned to care in the past five years. That is much higher than the figure in a recent government report - but the true number is likely to be even larger, as only a third of authorities said they collected this data as standard practice. Some adoptive parents say they’ve been given so little support that they’ve been forced to return their children to the care system. This programme explores the scale of the crisis as we hear from parents pushed to the limit, a teenager returned to care and a social worker giving a rare view of the system from the inside.Producer: Ashley Kennedy & Claire Kendall Reporter: Judith Moritz Sound designer: Richard Hannaford Production coordinator: Hattie Valentine Editor: Tara McDermott(Photo: Close-up portrait of couple Verity & Ian standing outdoors. Credit: Brij Patel)Details of advice and support with adoption are available at www.bbc.co.uk/actionline | 37m 37s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
32 placements across 29 markets.
Chart Positions
32 placements across 29 markets.
