The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012

Athletes with learning disabilities, back in the Paralympics after a 12 year ban

Aleks Krotoski explores what computer gaming offers as a cultural medium. In part one she visists The Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington.

Lucy Williamson reports on the host bars in South Korea that cater to women's desires for male companionship.

Financial journalist and broadcaster Max Flint investigates the positives of inflation. He looks at how inflation can shrink mortgages, shrivel debt, create growth and disposable income.

Karachi has a population of 20 million, of whom an estimated half a million are chronic heroin addicts. For Assignment Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is helping them and their families.

Financial journalist and broadcaster Max Flint investigates the negatives of inflation using the lessons of history by revisiting its bad reputation, in different parts of the world.

Tim Mansel reports from Ruhengeri in the mountainous north-west of Rwanda on the Rwandan cyclists who have become the nation’s heroes.

In the second part of his bold examination of rape in the DRC, award winning writer and Guardian journalist Will Storr meets male victims of sexual violence. He asks why NGOs and the UN are seemingly resistant to looking at this issue.

Olympic athletes dream of winning, but don't they owe it to themselves to prepare for the more probable outcome of losing?

What can a new but closed airport tell us about Spain's economic crisis?