Madeira's Drugs Crisis
The beautiful Atlantic island of Madeira has a chronic problem with a cheap synthetic drug imported through the post. The drug - nicknamed Bloom - is so easy to get hold of, so cheap and so addictive...
2 Jun 202528min
The Three Babies Mystery
On a cold night in January 2024 a dog walker finds a baby in a bag - a foundling. She's named Elsa, after the Frozen character.Reporter Sanchia Berg begins to follow the case, gaining rare access to t...
25 Mai 202528min
NHS: Painful Decisions
The latest figures on NHS finances don't make pretty reading. NHS England alone faces a projected deficit of £6.6 billion for this financial year and the situation looks as bleak right across the NHS...
18 Mai 202528min
The Big Mortgage Time Bomb
Vicky Spratt investigates how people have remained trapped in high interest mortgages since the financial crash of 2008.Some of these so-called ‘mortgage prisoners’ are homeowners who were formerly cu...
12 Mai 202528min
The Landscape Revolution
After Brexit, we left the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, the CAP. For many people - whatever they made of Brexit - this was a golden opportunity to come up with something better. A NEW farming polic...
4 Mai 202528min
Russia's New War Elite
Russians who sign up to fight in Ukraine earn big money in salaries and bonuses – and the Kremlin is even more generous to families of those killed in battle. Average compensation packages for a dead ...
27 Apr 202529min
The Choice: How Assisted Dying Works
California is one of ten US states where assisted dying is lawful and in some respects it’s a model for how the practice might work in Britain.Introduced in 2016, it’s available to those who are termi...
4 Apr 202528min
The Price of Equality
Thousands of female council workers across Britain have lost out on pay and benefits worth billions because of unequal pay over decades. Now claims for compensation and demands to reform pay and gradi...
30 Mar 202528min
