The Documentary Podcast

"I don't know anything about the genocide. I didn't kill anyone or steal from anyone. I just want to get back to my home, to my family property with my children," Sorious Samura follows Vestine, a Hutu refugee as she returns home to Rwanda after the genocide.

Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of the internet twenty years on by asking whether our brains are being rewired by the net. Are Facebook and other social media infantilising and corrupting young minds, or will they encourage a new cooperative way of thinking?

The Ponte Milvio, the bridge that spans the Tiber river in Rome, is a site of both romantic and religious pilgrimage. What place has the bridge had in ancient - and modern - history?

Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his extraordinary story.

Every year thousands of asylum seekers are detained in Britain. They are held while the Home Office decides whether to grant their claim for asylum or to remove them from the country. Its part of what is supposed to be a faster and more effective system for dealing with asylum. But there are claims that the government is routinely breaching its own guidelines -- and detaining vulnerable asylum seekers unlawfully. Rob Walker investigates for Assignment.

Michael Goldfarb looks at President Obama's mission to reform America's health care system.

Until recently, little Latvia appeared to have a rosy future. It was the fastest growing economy in Europe. But now that boom looks like a mirage. No country in the EU has been worse hit by the global recession. Its economy has been in freefall, property prices have collapsed, unemployment has been rising rapidly. Six months ago, Assignment visited several Latvians from various walks of life to see how they were affected by the crisis – now the programme returns to find out how these same individuals are coping as the recession deepens.

Twenty-five years ago, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed 8000 people. Allan Little returns to the scene of the disaster to find out why people are still suffering.

The second of this three-part series that examines the boom before the bust of 2008 looks at how our attitudes to risk and debt changed with disastrous consequences.

Six months ago there was a short military revolt in Bangladesh that threatened to push the country into nationwide armed conflict. But some things remain mysterious. Why was it so brutal? Who was really behind it? What did they hope to achieve? In this week’s addition of Assignment, Mark Dummett has tracked down key participants and eyewitnesses in search of some answers.