The Fifth Floor Podcast
A fresh look at the stories of the week with journalists from our 41 language sections, with presenter David Amanor.
Episodes to download
-
![]()
In praise of pine nuts
Friday
A winter snack to share with friends: why Afghans love their pine nuts
-
![]()
Behind the tragic headlines
Fri 29 Nov 2019
How BBC Vietnamese pieced together the lorry deaths story
-
![]()
What’s the secret of a happy and active old age?
Fri 22 Nov 2019
The Costa Rican centenarians who eat and sleep well - and carry on riding
-
![]()
Inside the Taliban prison
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Meeting the Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison
-
![]()
The peace corridor of Kartarpur
Fri 8 Nov 2019
Historic agreement gives Indian Sikhs access to Sikh temple in Pakistan
-
![]()
Bought and sold like used cars
Fri 1 Nov 2019
BBC Arabic investigates domestic maids being traded on commodity apps in Kuwait
-
![]()
A tale of two protests: Chile and Lebanon
Fri 25 Oct 2019
How small events in Chile and Lebanon triggered an outpouring of public anger
-
![]()
Kenya's camel-back clinic
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Taking the doctors to the herders: all aboard the medical camel caravan
-
![]()
Exposing Iraq’s pleasure marriage clerics
Fri 11 Oct 2019
The clerics who profit from exploiting Iraq’s vulnerable women: BBC Arabic investigates
-
![]()
Gandhi in London
Fri 4 Oct 2019
Mohandas Gandhi the law student and Mahatma Gandhi the leader: two visits to London
-
![]()
Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Stories from Russia through the eyes of the journalists in the Moscow bureau
-
![]()
Taken from their families: a colonial legacy
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Meeting the mixed race people taken from their African mothers in Belgium’s colonial era
-
![]()
Idlib's “double tap” airstrike
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Verifying an airstrike which the authorities deny ever happened
-
![]()
Lessons for Hong Kong from Ukraine
Fri 6 Sep 2019
Why a Ukrainian film about Kiev’s Maidan Square protests has taken off in Hong Kong
-
![]()
Meeting Bobi Wine
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Uganda’s rapper turned politician who’s challenging President Yoweri Museveni
-
![]()
A celebration of peace
Fri 23 Aug 2019
Ethiopia’s Oromo and Somali communities come together to celebrate a commitment to peace
-
![]()
-
![]()
Who were the Blikkiesdorp 5?
Fri 9 Aug 2019
BBC Africa’s Vauldi Carelse tells the stories of men killed in Blikkiesdorp, Cape Town
-
![]()
Ebola crisis: fighting fear and despair
Fri 2 Aug 2019
Ebola has hit almost every place BBC Africa's Gaius Kowene has lived, as he explains
-
![]()
Life at 124°C for Indian brick makers
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Smoke, scorched shoes and unbearable heat: life for India's brick makers
-
![]()
My ancestors, the slave traders
Fri 19 Jul 2019
How I discovered my forefathers not only traded goods to the Americas, but also slaves
-
![]()
Where do ancient treasures belong?
Fri 5 Jul 2019
The sale of Tutankhamun’s head reveals Egypt’s complex relationship with its heritage
-
![]()
Why Pakistan is not polio free
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Can the forces opposing Pakistan’s polio vaccination programme finally be overcome?
-
![]()
Fit to report - welcome to BBC Nairobi
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Meet Kenya’s language teams, and hear stories of camels, wigs, markets and tastes of home
-
![]()
A love story between former enemies
Fri 14 Jun 2019
How a former Tamil Tiger soldier and Sinhalese Civil Defence recruit found love
-
![]()
‘Are we wrong to miss our children?’
Fri 7 Jun 2019
An impossible choice for Yazidi mothers: leave your IS child or you cannot come home
-
![]()
What price scaling Everest?
Fri 31 May 2019
Queues, casualties and a clean-up campaign on Nepal’s holy mountain
-
![]()
Orangutan, elephants, and dams
Fri 24 May 2019
Animals under threat in Indonesia’s Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them
-
![]()
A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar
Fri 17 May 2019
You don’t speak the language and neither do the cast: how to make a Rohingya radio drama
-
![]()
'Time for the guns to be silent'
Fri 10 May 2019
Sudan re-imagined by a new generation. Mohanad Hashim meets protesters in Khartoum.
