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Award-winning current affairs documentary series investigating major issues at home and abroad

Showcasing BBC Radio 5 Live's news specials, including in-depth interviews.

Why it took more than 20 years to track down a killer. Winifred Robinson investigates a case that's stayed with her for more than half her working life.

Magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Ever made a questionable life choice or decision? Ever had those choices and decisions questioned by your friends and family? Ever wished someone else could make decisions for you? Life by Committee is ju...

The best of Radcliffe and Maconie; Intelligent music, conversation and a variety of guests. From BBC 6 Music

Magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Nicky Campbell asks if it's time to have a proper conversation about our mental health after the Meghan and Harry interview and the reaction to it? If you are affected by any issues in this podcast, you can fi...

The RNIB have announced big changes to their braille library service. From next month braille books will be smaller, slimmer and newly printed on demand. Users won't even have to return the books but can instea...

Prior to the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement and the Covid-19 pandemic, China’s presence on international social media was largely to promote a positive image of its country – trying to ‘change the climate’ ra...

When attending hospital appointments became so difficult during the pandemic, Moorfields Eye Hospital developed an app that allows you to keep track of your vision at home. It links the user up with a specialis...

The shipping industry is worth millions to the British economy and we depend on it for most of our goods. File on 4 lifts the lid on the dangerous and polluting world of shipbreaking and investigates why ships ...

We focus on the death of Cleveland Gervais. Cleveland was blind and, one year ago, he fell from the platform edge and was struck by a train at Eden Park Station in South East London. There was no tactile paving...

Millions of us each year pick up our phone and swipe right in the hope of finding ‘the one’, and with the pandemic limiting even the most basic of social interactions, statistics suggest more of us are using ap...

5 Live's Naga Munchetty has been speaking to Col, Marie and Thelma (not their real names), who have 12 children in the care system. They've been helped by projects run by Pause charity which works with women wh...

China calls them centres for re-education. The United States says the actions of the state amount to genocide. As more testimonies emerge from China’s “re-education” camps in the Xinjiang region of China, Colin...

Mark Jones’ seven-year-old daughter Emily was killed by a psychiatric patient on Mothers Day 2020. He claims an NHS trust’s failings left Eltiona Skana free to kill Emily in a park in Bolton. Speaking to 5 Li...