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File on Four 1977-
BBC Radio 4's flagship investigative programme. Established by former BBC Radio 4 controller, Michael Green, File On 4 has investigated a wide range of topics and home and abroad. Food aid fraud, football hooliganism, joyriding and police marksmen are just some of the issues the programme has explored in depth. The programme produced by BBC Radio in Manchester.
- Broadcast details
- Radio 4, 1977 (40 minutes)
- Production company
- BBC Manchester
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs series
- Notes
- File On 4 has heard from some of the BBC's most accomplished journalists, with Bridget Kendall, Stephen Sackur, Robin Lustig, Justin Webb, Winifred Robinson, Nick Clarke and David Levy all having reported for the programme.
The 'No Such' list of entries for File on Four covers editions which dealt with issues concerning the National Health Service or other topics related to heath, medicine and relevant policies of the Conservative Government between 1979-1990.
see Hugh Chignell's notes on the 'No Such thing as society' research website http://www.nosuch-research.co.uk/rca.html
Staff relations at Royal Liverpool Hospital
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 5 June 1979
- Production company
- BBC Manchester
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Peter Oppenheimer
Financing the Health Service
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 9 April 1980
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Eric Robson
The state of the health service
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 17 September 1980
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Michael Cooke
Ashington hospital revisited
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 6 July 1982
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Eric Robson
Cuts in the NHS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 2 August 1983
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Michael Robinson
Care in the community
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 4 October 1983
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Prescribing drugs
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 28 February 1984
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Privatisation
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 17 July 1984
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
AIDS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 4 December 1984
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Private mental hospitals
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 22 October 1985
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Treatment of drug addicts
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 17 February 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Nursing profession
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 8 April 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Care for the elderly
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 14 April 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Max Easterman
Safety of drugs
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 15 July 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
NHS and privatisation
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 28 October 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Treatment of drug addicts
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 24 November 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Pre-natal screening on the NHS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 16 December 1987
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
NHS 1
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 1 March 1988
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
NHS 2
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 8 March 1988
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Cancer treatment
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 1 November 1988
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Conservative party reform of the NHS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 28 March 1989
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Technology colleges
The government planned 20 city technology colleges by 1990. So far they’ve set up one and another two will open this autumn. An educational breakthrough or an expensive fiasco?
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 6 June 1989 (40 minutes)
- Production company
- BBC Radio Manchester
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs series
- Director
- Brendan McCarthy
- Presenter
- David Levy
- Notes
- File On 4 has heard from some of the BBC's most accomplished journalists, with Bridget Kendall, Stephen Sackur, Robin Lustig, Justin Webb, Winifred Robinson, Nick Clarke and David Levy have all reported for the programme.
Hospitals opting out of NHS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 13 June 1989
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Helen Boaden
I Want to be Normal Again
In 1988 the first British brain implant was performed, offering new hope for Parkinsons Disease sufferers in Britain. Barbara Myers follows Fred Roberts and Cyril Hayes through the weeks leading up to the operation and afterwards.
- Broadcast details
- Radio 4, 22 June 1989 (40 minutes)
- Production company
- BBC Manchester; BBC Pebble Mill;
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs series
- Director
- Sarah Rowlands
- Presenter
- Barbara Myers
- Cast
- Fred Roberts; Cyril Hayes
Medical negligence
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 27 June 1989
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Negligence claims
The government plans to indemnify hospital doctors against negligence claims. Will the proposals help patients or make victims of both them and their doctors?
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 27 June 1989 (40 minutes)
- Production company
- BBC Radio
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs series
- Director
- Liz Carney
- Presenter
- Winifred Robinson
AIDS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 26 September 1989
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
Fertility clinics
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 6 December 1989
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
AIDS
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 3 July 1990
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
NHS waiting lists
- Broadcast details
- BBC Radio 4, 14 November 1990
- Medium
- Radio
- Genre
- current affairs
- Presenter
- Helen Boaden