The Report
Summary: Uncovering the real stories behind the news. Simon Cox and fellow reporters delve beneath the headlines. The Report airs every Thursday evening at 8pm on Radio 4 for 38 weeks a year. The programme lasts 28 minutes.
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The MPs' expenses debacle has claimed another victim - 5 years after the initial revelations. Reporter Melanie Abbott investigates the story behind Maria Miller's resignation.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are already taken by around 1 in 7 adults in the UK. Reporter Tom Esslemont investigates plans for a dramatic increase in prescribing.
It may never be known why MH370 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of everyone on board. Melanie Abbott asks how a plane can disappear in the 21st Century, and why nearly a month on we are still no nearer to solving the mystery of what happened on that flight.
The killing of Marius the giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo sparked a global outcry. Hannah Barnes asks whether what the Danes did in public is happening in secret in British zoos.
Is Amanda Knox really guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher? Ruth Alexander travels to Italy to investigate.
After a turbulent few weeks for those at the top of the schools' watchdog, Phil Kemp asks if this public row has distracted from the real struggle going on at Ofsted.
The Gulen movement, Turkey's most influential Islamic network, helped bring the ruling AK Party to power in 2002. Now it threatens to bring it down. Edward Stourton investigates.
What does the popularity of controversial comedian Dieudonne tell us about France today? Helen Grady meets some of his supporters and those who think he's a dangerous anti-Semite.
Oakwood Prison has faced a troubled history since it opened in April 2012, with several rooftop protests and a number of damning reports into its operation. Hannah Barnes investigates the disorder at the prison earlier this month and asks whether the situation there is indicative of wider problems in Britain's prison system.
Wesley Stephenson asks what compromises the NHS will have to make to provide week-round services in a time of unprecedented financial pressures.
The UK's Supreme Court will rule on the 'right to die' early in 2014. What can we learn from Belgium's experience of legalised euthanasia?
Jenny Chryss examines growing calls for a public inquiry into allegations of widespread falsification of evidence by the police during the 1984 miners' strike.
The 'Cyber Monday' computer meltdown that affected RBS and NatWest customers, trying to bag bargains in the run-up to Christmas, was just the latest in a string of IT glitches that have plagued the big UK banks in recent years. But is there a greater problem than the inconvenience caused for shoppers? Do the ageing IT systems at the heart of the UK banking system pose a risk to financial stability? Melanie Abbott investigates.
Simon Cox explores the story of three women, an obscure Maoist sect, and a Metropolitan Police investigation into claims of domestic slavery.
With a new influx of Eastern European migrants expected in January, Andrew Fletcher asks whether enough is being done to ease community tensions in some UK cities.