The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2010

Sue Armstrong looks at the Malawi's growing dependence on tobacco growing. She also asks whether cigarette manufacturers are trying to take advantage of poor regulation to build up new markets in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, as smoking has declined in developed countries.

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is one of West Africa's longest serving leaders. He's maintained a firm grip on power since taking over in a military coup in 1994. He professes to have invented a cure for Aids and has declared himself a hero of agriculture and development. He's also a man who likes to celebrate his birthday in style. Ed Butler was in Gambia for the party.

In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil community - was assassinated at his home in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Twenty years on, the Tamil Tigers have been defeated by the military. Appapillai's wife and son travel back to their homeland in search of his legacy in an attempt to understand what the future holds for Sri Lanka's Tamil people.

It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic discrimination by authorities in the Dominican Republic. Brian King meets the local lawyers who are fighting individual cases of injustice.

Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco companies battle for new smokers. Poorer tobacco growing countries like Malawi are becoming ever more dependent on tobacco as a regular income. But how do they resolve the dilemma between health and wealth?

Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's poorest people. In this Assignment programme we hear from Honduran migrant workers in the US and from their impoverished families back home. Vera Frankl presents.

"Why doesn't grandad smile?" Meena Baktash takes a personal look at the Kabul of her youth. What has war done to a city that was once so beautiful and a people so vibrant? After decades of conflict, what is left aside from a feeling of nostalgia?

Despite an official ban and regular crack downs the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has gone from strength to strength. The the BBC's Arabic affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi investigates the secret of its endurance and its global reach.

Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering with, building and repairing them. It is a fixation that has got him into trouble with the law, but ultimately radio has been his saviour.

Sweden has garnered respect around the world for the welcome it offered to thousands of Iraqi refugees after the invasion of 2003. It's taken more Iraqis than any other country in Europe - indeed one small town outside Stockholm, Södertälje, has taken more than the United States. But 3,000 of those refugees are now living in hiding. Their applications for permanent residency have been denied and they face deportation if they are arrested. Tim Mansel reports from Sweden on why the government has decided it's safe to send these people home.