The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012

Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part three he examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the crisis.

British citizen, Ruhal Ahmed, spent two years in Guantanamo Bay. After his release he returned home to Tipton in the West Midlands without ever being charged with a crime by the British or US governments. During his incarceration Ruhal was repeatedly tortured by his captors. The technique he feared most was being tortured with music. We chart Ruhal's progress as he attempts to silence torture by music.

Divided by conflict. The human stories behind Syria's uprising. Owen Bennett Jones reports for Assignment.

Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part two, he focuses on the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact.

Jon Donnison travels to Gaza for Assignment to witness the world's strangest marathon.

Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part one he focuses on the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

We meet an ordinary Kenyan woman who has done an extraordinary thing and opened her home to 49 orphaned children. She is one of an increasing number of Kenyans who are stepping forward to adopt or care for children in need.

The BBC's Nina Robinson reports for Assignment from one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest urban slums, or favelas, to see whether drug gangs can be controlled for good.

A year after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt, the army is still in charge of the country, and there's daily unrest on the streets. What happened to the revolution? Magdi Abdelhadi reports.

In the occupied Palestinian territories the rate of blindness is as high as ten times the norm in the West. We follow the story of different people whose lives converge through the work of St John Eye Hospital, which has been bringing modern medical care to a community in desperate need, regardless of ethnicity, religion or politics.