Fifth Floor Podcast
Faranak Amidi takes a fresh look at the stories of the week with journalists from our 40 language sections.
Episodes to download
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A journalist’s life in Israel
Sat 13 Apr 2024
What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?
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My Ramadan
Sat 6 Apr 2024
How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?
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Women's radio in Afghanistan
Fri 22 Mar 2024
The women making ‘lifeline’ radio for their sisters confined at home
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Israel’s Orthodox Jews and the army
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Protests in Israel over the army exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews
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Searching for missing migrants
Fri 1 Mar 2024
The volunteers looking for migrants missing in the Sonoran Desert
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Living with war: Ukraine's new normal
Fri 23 Feb 2024
How Ukrainians have adapted to everyday life in wartime
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Medicines and cinema: Gaza Lifeline
Mon 19 Feb 2024
BBC Arabic’s Gaza Lifeline features everything from life-saving tips to cinema camps
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What is happening at Zaporizhzhia?
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Investigating safety concerns at Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant, occupied by Russia
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Election symbols in Pakistan
Fri 2 Feb 2024
Arrows, tigers and cricket bats: why party symbols matter in Pakistan elections
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Balochistan: Iran Pakistan conflict
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Why are allies Iran and Pakistan firing missiles at each other’s Baloch provinces?
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Bring them home: Israel's hostages
Fri 19 Jan 2024
The families of Israel’s hostages trying to get them home
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Discovering the real TB Joshua
Fri 12 Jan 2024
The dark secrets behind the success of the late TB Joshua, Nigerian megachurch founder
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Rushdi Abualouf: family, work and war
Thu 11 Jan 2024
The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf on reporting the war in Gaza, and now watching from outside
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Stories of hope and joy
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Seagull neighbours, forest regeneration and a visit home: hopeful stories from 2023
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Ukraine: ancient and modern
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Diplomatic and military challenges, but victory on the return of ancient treasures
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Somalia after the floods
Fri 8 Dec 2023
The impact of Somalia's flood crisis, following years of drought
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Breathless: the human cost of flaring
Fri 1 Dec 2023
How the oil industry’s gas flaring habit is putting health at risk
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Sudan's IDP crisis
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Sudan has five million internally displaced people forced from their homes by the war
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Eagles helping locate Israel's dead
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Rare bird tracking data helps locate missing bodies from 7th October attacks
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What's happening in Ukraine?
Fri 3 Nov 2023
The latest on the war from BBC Ukrainian and BBC Monitoring
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Meet the BBC Korean team in Seoul
Fri 27 Oct 2023
The Fifth Floor meets the team reporting news for audiences in North and South Korea
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Israel Gaza conflict: the war of words
Fri 20 Oct 2023
How BBC Monitoring is reporting and analysing news from the heart of the conflict
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Reporting the Israel Gaza conflict
Fri 13 Oct 2023
How the BBC’s language services are reporting Israel's war with Hamas
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Pakistan and Iran: expelling Afghans
Fri 6 Oct 2023
The growing pressure on undocumented Afghans in Pakistan and Iran to return home
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Venezuela's extraordinary prison raid
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Retaking control of gang run Tocorón jail, which had a nightclub, pool even a mini-zoo
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Helping Libya’s flood survivors
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Saving lives in Derna: insights into BBC Media Action’s lifeline programming
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Mahsa Amini: the woman behind the icon
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Mahsa's mother Mojgan Eftekhari gives her first interview
