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( part of the ReformUK friendly programming that has been on the BBC this year -- let's you see what is on their minds )
Fake Marriages - The real story
File on 4 InvestigatesFile 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#BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4Investigates #BBCFileOn4 #Immigration #TheHomeOffice
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( part of the ReformUK friendly programming that has been on the BBC this year -- let's you see what is on their minds )
Fake Marriages - The real story
File on 4 InvestigatesFile 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#BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4Investigates #BBCFileOn4 #Immigration #TheHomeOffice
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( part of the ReformUK friendly programming that has been on the BBC this year -- let's you see what is on their minds )
Fake Marriages - The real story
File on 4 InvestigatesFile 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#BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4Investigates #BBCFileOn4 #Immigration #TheHomeOffice
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( part of the ReformUK friendly programming that has been on the BBC this year -- let's you see what is on their minds )
Fake Marriages - The real story
File on 4 InvestigatesFile 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#BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4Investigates #BBCFileOn4 #Immigration #TheHomeOffice
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( part of the ReformUK friendly programming that has been on the BBC this year -- let's you see what is on their minds )
Fake Marriages - The real story
File on 4 InvestigatesFile 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#BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4Investigates #BBCFileOn4 #Immigration #TheHomeOffice
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(rapid decrease in the number of transplant surgeons)
The battle for hearts and lungs: Transplants in trouble.
File on 4 InvestigatesThe UK was once a world leader in heart and lung transplantation. Pioneering surgeons attracted patients from all over the world. But the NHS has not kept pace with medical and technological developments and today the UK lags far behind most similar countries. It carries out fewer transplants and a lack of resources mean it doesn’t routinely use modern technologies. Many of the health service’s leading surgeons have left to work overseas in recent years, frustrated, they say, at the lack of attention transplant services have received from NHS England.
Through speaking to patients, surgeons and experts, File on Four Investigates looks at what the UK needs to do to update and transform this life-changing service.
Reporter Michael Buchanan
Producers: Adam Eley & Paul Grant
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Tara McDermottShow less
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(rapid decrease in the number of transplant surgeons)
The battle for hearts and lungs: Transplants in trouble.
File on 4 InvestigatesThe UK was once a world leader in heart and lung transplantation. Pioneering surgeons attracted patients from all over the world. But the NHS has not kept pace with medical and technological developments and today the UK lags far behind most similar countries. It carries out fewer transplants and a lack of resources mean it doesn’t routinely use modern technologies. Many of the health service’s leading surgeons have left to work overseas in recent years, frustrated, they say, at the lack of attention transplant services have received from NHS England.
Through speaking to patients, surgeons and experts, File on Four Investigates looks at what the UK needs to do to update and transform this life-changing service.
Reporter Michael Buchanan
Producers: Adam Eley & Paul Grant
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Tara McDermottShow less
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Available now38 minutes
On airToday
11:00
BBC Radio 4#BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4 #BBCFileOn4Investigates #NHS #Birmingham
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2026-03-04 2090-2040
Bogus self-employment - who pays the price?
File on 4 Investigates
As the government’s flagship Employment Rights Act (2025) comes into force, File on 4 Investigates a loophole worrying experts: bogus self-employment. We discover hundreds of workers on government contracts are said to be wrongly classified as self-employed. This we are told is the tip of the iceberg as more employers increasingly choose to put workers on self-employed contracts rather than employing them as staff, without all the rights, bolstered under the new laws.
Some are suggesting that recent changes to National Insurance have meant more business owners are keeping workers off payroll to keep running costs down. We will look at small businesses where it’s become increasingly difficult to employ staff in the traditional way and find that some workers in hospitality for example like the flexibility that job apps can give them when picking up casual freelance work.
Presenter: Tom Wall
Producer: Rob Byrne
Technical producer: Cameron Ward
Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Tara McDermottShow less
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Available now37 minutes
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Today
11:00
BBC Radio 4 -
2026-03-04 2090-2040
Bogus self-employment - who pays the price?
File on 4 Investigates
As the government’s flagship Employment Rights Act (2025) comes into force, File on 4 Investigates a loophole worrying experts: bogus self-employment. We discover hundreds of workers on government contracts are said to be wrongly classified as self-employed. This we are told is the tip of the iceberg as more employers increasingly choose to put workers on self-employed contracts rather than employing them as staff, without all the rights, bolstered under the new laws.
Some are suggesting that recent changes to National Insurance have meant more business owners are keeping workers off payroll to keep running costs down. We will look at small businesses where it’s become increasingly difficult to employ staff in the traditional way and find that some workers in hospitality for example like the flexibility that job apps can give them when picking up casual freelance work.
Presenter: Tom Wall
Producer: Rob Byrne
Technical producer: Cameron Ward
Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Tara McDermottShow less
Download
Choose your file
Higher quality (128kbps)
Lower quality (64kbps)
Available now37 minutes
On radio
Today
11:00
BBC Radio 4 -
FileOnFour #BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4
Inside the Migrant Hotel
File on 4 InvestigatesIt'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 to know a different side of the story - what life is like Inside the migrant hotels - and she's seen and heard some striking things:
Families who have been seeking asylum for nearly a decade;, a stream of prepaid taxis taking migrants to medical appointments and transporting them across the UK, families cooking meals in secret in hotel bathrooms and a system that appears to be broken, according to the people within it.
These are the first recordings that have been made of this kind. It's a story that has dominated the news, but hasn't been heard from the inside until now.
All names have been changed to protect the identities of hotel residents and staff
Reporter: Sue Mitchell
Producer: Joel Moors
Executive producer: Joe KentInside the Migrant Hotel is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4
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FileOnFour #BBCRadio4 #BBCFileOn4
Inside the Migrant Hotel
File on 4 InvestigatesIt'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 to know a different side of the story - what life is like Inside the migrant hotels - and she's seen and heard some striking things:
Families who have been seeking asylum for nearly a decade;, a stream of prepaid taxis taking migrants to medical appointments and transporting them across the UK, families cooking meals in secret in hotel bathrooms and a system that appears to be broken, according to the people within it.
These are the first recordings that have been made of this kind. It's a story that has dominated the news, but hasn't been heard from the inside until now.
All names have been changed to protect the identities of hotel residents and staff
Reporter: Sue Mitchell
Producer: Joel Moors
Executive producer: Joe KentInside the Migrant Hotel is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4