The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012

'Sugars' addiction in the township of Chatsworth near Durban and the hallucinogenic detox which gives addicts the chance to change their lives.

Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence that women are being sterilised, often without their knowledge, in an effort by the Uzbek government to control the population.

Nina Robinson reports from Texas on how the heavy hand of the law in some US schools is criminalising the very young.

Tim Franks looks at the case of two US inmates who have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for what will be 40 years this month.

Barbara Plett investigates how the conflict in Syria, and the future of the Assads, might reshape the Middle East.

Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy at the Round Up Drive In, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Assignment investigates prescription drug abuse among Canada's First Nation communities.

Military service is mandatory for all Turkish men - they can only escape it if they are ill, disabled or homosexual. But proving homosexuality is a humiliating ordeal. Emre Azizlerli lifts the lid on the only country within the Nato military alliance to discriminate against homosexuals in this way.

Why secrecy for Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland can be the difference between life and death.

What's it like to be a graduate in Greece contemplating the future? Chloe Hadjimatheou reports for Assignment on the prospects for new graduates in Athens who are at the start of their working lives.