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• Witness Protection 27 Mar 12

  Tue, 27 Mar 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  After details of people under witness protection were leaked to a private investigator, Allan Urry asks whether police are doing enough to protect witnesses whose lives are at risk

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• Public Sector Contracts 20 Mar 12

  Tue, 20 Mar 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  The Government says its keen to help develop British business - so why do so many public sector contracts end up going to companies outside the UK?

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• Tax Avoidance 13 Mar 12

  Tue, 13 Mar 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  Fran Abrams investigates tax avoidance schemes which cost taxpayers billions every year. Government employees, bankers, even footballers - is there anyone who isn't involved?

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• Family Annihilation 6 march 12

  Wed, 7 Mar 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  In the last two months, four fathers have killed their partners, children and themselves. Jane Deith investigates why they decide to take such drastic action.

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• Credit Rating Agencies 28 Feb 12

  Tue, 28 Feb 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  The credit rating agencies' word is gospel to markets. But can we trust them? Hugh Pym gets inside the world of Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch.

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• Diabetes Care 21 Feb 12

  Tue, 21 Feb 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  Despite pledges to tackle diabetes, why do 24,000 people die needlessly each year?

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• File on 4: Iranian Sanctions14 FEB 02

  Tue, 14 Feb 12

  Duration:
  37 mins

  As the European Union strengthens its sanctions against Iran, Reporter Allan Urry looks at the impact on UK companies who trade with Iranian businesses.

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• Biosecurity

  Tue, 7 Feb 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  How well protected is the UK against biological threats? Dutch and American scientists have succeeded in mutating a deadly bird-flu virus to make it easily transmissible to humans. If it got out, it could start a fatal epidemic. They keep it securely locked away in their laboratories, but want to publish the biological recipe for making it. In an unprecedented move, the U.S. government is pressing them to keep the details of their experiments secret for fear that bio-terrorists could use the organism to kill hundreds of millions of people. At the same time, a rapidly developing branch of science known as 'synthetic biology' offers dramatic possibilities for developing new vaccines and targeting many lethal diseases. But does it also increase the risk that newly-created organisms could be used for harmful purposes as the necessary research techniques spread out from authorised laboratories to a network of DIY enthusiasts?

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• Deaths in Custody 31 Jan 12

  Tue, 31 Jan 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  Inquests are hearing a new term to explain deaths in police custody: Excited Delirium. Could the diagnosis be used to cover up excessive police force? Angus Stickler investigates.

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• Carers in Conflict 24 Jan 12

  Tue, 24 Jan 12

  Duration:
  38 mins

  Jenny Cuffe talks to the foster families left alienated by their unequal - and sometimes Kafkaesque - struggles with social services departments.

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