The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012

Kati Whitaker gains rare access to Northern Ghana's witch camps, where old women accused of witchcraft are banished.

Tessa Dunlop travels to Romania to investigate why a proposed open-cast gold mine, that would be Europe's largest, has caused a political storm all over the country.

Mike Greenwood journeys across one of the world's final frontiers, the Chaco in Paraguay, to uncover how environmental groups, ranchers and missionaries are battling for the soul of one of the last wildernesses.

Aleks Krotoski explores what computer gaming offers as a cultural medium. In part two of this two-part documentary she examines how cultural difference is reflected in games and hears how people increasingly want to reflect their cultural experiences in them.

Gareth Mitchell visits Canada to meet one of the teams behind the most violent sport in the Paralympics -€“ wheelchair rugby.

Measures to stop drugs cheats in the Paralympics are already in place but as BBC World Service Science Correspondent Matt McGrath reports, the rule book is a long one.

No fewer than twenty football bosses have been murdered in Bulgaria in the last decade. In Assignment, Margot Dunne explores reports of deep rooted corruption and matchfixing in the country's top league.

In Beijing in 2008, the Ukrainian Paralympic Team came 4th in the league of medals. Andriy Kravets discovers how the country managed this surprising achievement and how it is preparing for the London Games, and questions whether the success of its Paralympic Team has had an impact on how disability is viewed in Ukraine.

Gareth Mitchell looks at the technology behind the Paralympics and visits a German factory where carbon fibre running blades are produced.

Documentary-maker Nina Robinson concludes her two-year project to capture the attitudes of London's Eastenders to the biggest event to ever take place in their locality: the Olympic Games. In this episode she finds out if her participants feel willing and able to join the Olympics party.