The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2010

Civil servant Ger Frits and poet Frank Starik come together in their shared determination that those who die alone in Amsterdam have a respectful and personal funeral.

In Pakistan, the Taliban are continuing to attract recruits, despite the fact that their violent methods have outraged most Pakistanis.

A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to a very big man and the only way you can stop the train is to push the big man onto the track: his bulk will stop the train; five lives will be spared. Would you?

The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera gains exclusive access to Britain's ultra secret listening station where super computers monitor the world's communications traffic.

A year-long transition from woman to man, chronicled by Tristan Whiston through the change in his singing voice.

Assignment investigates how Goldman Sachs has made record profits since it was bailed out by the US government in 2008. Reporter Matt Prodger reveals that the firm is still operating as an investment bank, trading in exotic derivatives, more than a year after it turned itself into a regular bank holding company.

Award-winning travel writer Polly Evans goes in search of the other Guantanamo, talking to local people about their home and how they feel about it becoming synonymous with what Amnesty International called "the gulag of our times".

What are the practical and moral issues around this alternative energy source? Gerry Northam reports.

In the UK, failed asylum seekers like Collen have no rights to accommodation or benefits. They cannot work. And yet it could be dangerous for him to return to Zimbabwe. What is it like for him and others like him to be living in limbo?

With the British election on May 6th, the BBC’s Nina Robinson examines the class system to see how far it is still relevant to people living in Britain today.