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5 Live Investigates

Adrian Goldberg presents cutting edge investigative journalism, as well as taking on listeners' campaigns and consumer issues

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The Children 'Vanishing' From Schools

The Children 'Vanishing' From Schools

Thousands of children with special educational needs are disappearing from education with ‘concerning’ consequences, Ofs... Read more

18 Nov 2018

49mins

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Domestic Abuse

Domestic Abuse

More than half of all domestic abuse cases investigated by the police result in no action being taken against the offend... Read more

23 Nov 2014

55mins

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Anxiety Drugs and Fundraising

Anxiety Drugs and Fundraising

The programme investigates deaths linked to benzodiazepines, addictive drugs used to treat stress and anxiety. While the... Read more

20 Dec 2015

49mins

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Police Strip Searches

Police Strip Searches

5 live Investigates reveals startling new figures on the number of strip searches carried out by police. The Metropolita... Read more

30 Oct 2016

44mins

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Disappearing online daters

Disappearing online daters

Customers of online dating sites owned by Cupid plc voice their suspicions about the flirty daters who mysteriously disa... Read more

24 Feb 2013

46mins

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Child Trafficking

Child Trafficking

An investigation by BBC 5 Live has revealed that 239 unaccompanied, asylum-seeking children went missing from care in En... Read more

17 Apr 2016

41mins

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Football Academies & Retail Fraud

Football Academies & Retail Fraud

5 Live Investigates finds out what clubs in Leagues one and two really think of reforms to the football academy system. ... Read more

28 Apr 2013

53mins

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Dementia Care

Dementia Care

5Live Investigates examines the routine care people with dementia receive when in an acute hospital. Previously unseen r... Read more

22 Apr 2018

44mins

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False Accusations

False Accusations

Why would anyone make a false accusation of sexual abuse? We hear from someone who did just that and from another man wh... Read more

20 Jan 2013

49mins

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School Transport Cuts

School Transport Cuts

Education Secretary Justine Greening orders a review of council policies around school transport provision for disabled ... Read more

10 Sep 2017

44mins

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Emergency Care Pressures

Emergency Care Pressures

Thousands of hours of emergency ambulance time each week is lost because crews have to queue to offload patients at A+E.... Read more

12 May 2013

50mins

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The Men Who Go Missing

The Men Who Go Missing

Teenager Thomas Jones went missing on a night out with friends during his first week at university in Worcester. His bod... Read more

3 Mar 2019

44mins

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Teachers on Social Media & Sport Supplements

Teachers on Social Media & Sport Supplements

Social Media being used by some teachers to form improper relationships with pupils. Also, the call for tougher regulati... Read more

25 Nov 2012

46mins

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Prison violence and A&E waiting times

Prison violence and A&E waiting times

5 live Investigates takes a look behind bars via a series of leaked prison incident reports from a five day period in Ja... Read more

7 Feb 2016

47mins

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Mental Health & Steroid Use

Mental Health & Steroid Use

Mental health services need to get the same investment, planning and attention that is given to physical health says NHS... Read more

2 Mar 2014

48mins

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Supermarkets Misleading Shoppers

Supermarkets Misleading Shoppers

5 Live Investigates has discovered three of the UK’s leading supermarkets are misleading customers by selling food which... Read more

24 Feb 2019

49mins

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Obesity Fire Rescue Costs

Obesity Fire Rescue Costs

Fire and Rescue services in the UK are called out to assist severely obese people more than ten times a week. Each incid... Read more

11 Nov 2012

47mins

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Deprivation of Liberty Orders

Deprivation of Liberty Orders

Care and health workers are failing to follow proper procedure before curtailing the freedoms of patients suffering from... Read more

7 Apr 2013

49mins

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Fake Self-Employment in the Work Programme

Fake Self-Employment in the Work Programme

Why would welfare to work advisers tell the long-term unemployed to become self-employed? Adrian Goldberg hears from a r... Read more

3 Feb 2013

48mins

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Restraint in special schools

Restraint in special schools

Hundreds of children have been injured whilst being physically restrained in special schools, according to figures obtai... Read more

9 Apr 2017

49mins

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