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Fifth Floor

Faranak Amidi takes a fresh look at the stories of the week with journalists from our 40 language sections.

World Service,367 episodes

Episodes

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A journalist’s life in Israel
What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?
13 Apr 2024,27 mins
My Ramadan
How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?
06 Apr 2024,27 mins
From prison to president
The extraordinary rise of Senegal's Bassirou Diomaye Faye
29 Mar 2024,40 mins
Women's radio in Afghanistan
The women making ‘lifeline’ radio for their sisters confined at home
22 Mar 2024,41 mins
Israel’s Orthodox Jews and the army
Protests in Israel over the army exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews
15 Mar 2024,40 mins
The gangs of Haiti
Lawlessness and chaos: how Haiti's gangs became so powerful
08 Mar 2024,40 mins
Searching for missing migrants
The volunteers looking for migrants missing in the Sonoran Desert
01 Mar 2024,40 mins
Living with war: Ukraine's new normal
How Ukrainians have adapted to everyday life in wartime
23 Feb 2024,40 mins
Medicines and cinema: Gaza Lifeline
BBC Arabic’s Gaza Lifeline features everything from life-saving tips to cinema camps
19 Feb 2024,40 mins
What is happening at Zaporizhzhia?
Investigating safety concerns at Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant, occupied by Russia
09 Feb 2024,40 mins
Election symbols in Pakistan
Arrows, tigers and cricket bats: why party symbols matter in Pakistan elections
02 Feb 2024,41 mins
Balochistan: Iran Pakistan conflict
Why are allies Iran and Pakistan firing missiles at each other’s Baloch provinces?
26 Jan 2024,40 mins
Bring them home: Israel's hostages
The families of Israel’s hostages trying to get them home
19 Jan 2024,40 mins
Discovering the real TB Joshua
The dark secrets behind the success of the late TB Joshua, Nigerian megachurch founder
12 Jan 2024,40 mins
Rushdi Abualouf: family, work and war
The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf on reporting the war in Gaza, and now watching from outside
11 Jan 2024,40 mins
Stories of hope and joy
Seagull neighbours, forest regeneration and a visit home: hopeful stories from 2023
29 Dec 2023,41 mins
Ukraine: ancient and modern
Diplomatic and military challenges, but victory on the return of ancient treasures
15 Dec 2023,40 mins
Somalia after the floods
The impact of Somalia's flood crisis, following years of drought
08 Dec 2023,40 mins
Breathless: the human cost of flaring
How the oil industry’s gas flaring habit is putting health at risk
01 Dec 2023,40 mins
Sudan's IDP crisis
Sudan has five million internally displaced people forced from their homes by the war
24 Nov 2023,40 mins
Eagles helping locate Israel's dead
Rare bird tracking data helps locate missing bodies from 7th October attacks
17 Nov 2023,40 mins
A lifeline for Gaza
BBC Arabic's new emergency radio service for Gaza
10 Nov 2023,40 mins
What's happening in Ukraine?
The latest on the war from BBC Ukrainian and BBC Monitoring
03 Nov 2023,40 mins
Meet the BBC Korean team in Seoul
The Fifth Floor meets the team reporting news for audiences in North and South Korea
27 Oct 2023,48 mins
Israel Gaza conflict: the war of words
How BBC Monitoring is reporting and analysing news from the heart of the conflict
20 Oct 2023,40 mins
Reporting the Israel Gaza conflict
How the BBC’s language services are reporting Israel's war with Hamas
13 Oct 2023,40 mins
Pakistan and Iran: expelling Afghans
The growing pressure on undocumented Afghans in Pakistan and Iran to return home
06 Oct 2023,40 mins
Venezuela's extraordinary prison raid
Retaking control of gang run Tocorón jail, which had a nightclub, pool even a mini-zoo
29 Sep 2023,40 mins
Helping Libya’s flood survivors
Saving lives in Derna: insights into BBC Media Action’s lifeline programming
22 Sep 2023,40 mins
Mahsa Amini: the woman behind the icon
Mahsa's mother Mojgan Eftekhari gives her first interview
15 Sep 2023,40 mins