The 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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Six years on: the murder of Avijit Roy
Monday
As five men are sentenced to be hanged, BBC Bangla’s Akbar Hossain reflects on the case
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Ethiopia's missing refugees
Fri 12 Feb 2021
Why thousands of Eritrean refugees from camps in Tigray are still unaccounted for
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Myanmar: Reporting the coup
Fri 5 Feb 2021
Protests, civil disobedience and fear as Myanmar's new military rulers take control
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Somalia: memories, identity and war
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Lost photographs and fragments of childhood memories: a child refugee remembers
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Ten years after Tahrir Square
Fri 22 Jan 2021
How do the people involved in Egypt's 2011 revolution feel about it now?
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Beirut port blast: five months on
Fri 15 Jan 2021
A search for truth and repairing the blast's physical, political and psychological damage
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The abandoned Iraqi interpreters
Fri 8 Jan 2021
Iraqi interpreters feel under threat from local militias as coalition forces withdraw
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Vaccines, violence and forests
New Year's Day 2021
Looking ahead to 2021 in Brazil, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Memorable journeys of 2020
Christmas Day 2020
Stories from Indian-adminstered Kashmir, Trump’s America and frontline Nagorno Karabakh
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'Milk siblings' and Islam
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Breastfeeding other women’s babies in Islam, and the bond between those children
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A small election in North Macedonia
Fri 11 Dec 2020
“Yugo-stories”: why a BBC Serbian reporter went to Stip to meet one candidate
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China’s provocative political artist
Fri 4 Dec 2020
Who is the self-proclaimed “wolf warrior” Wuheqilin?
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The self-styled prophet of Siberia
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Why did Russia’s FSB arrest a religious leader in the remote Siberian forests?
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Kenya's camel-back clinic
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Getting medicines and healthcare to Kenya's remote nomadic communities
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Turkey’s Armenians under pressure
Fri 6 Nov 2020
Nagorno Karabakh triggers tension between Turks and Turkish Armenians in Istanbul
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Inside the schools that chain boys
Fri 30 Oct 2020
How BBC Arabic uncovered widespread abuse of children in Islamic schools in Sudan
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The battle for Florida’s Latino voters
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Florida’s Spanish language ad campaigns target Latino voters in the US election
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Raucous rude and simultaneously translated!
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Rendering the feisty US presidential debates into Farsi, with BBC Persian
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India's secret soldiers
Fri 9 Oct 2020
The funeral that revealed India’s covert force of Tibetan refugee fighters
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The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh
Fri 2 Oct 2020
Why a small mountainous territory has caused decades of conflict and displacement
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Music and Memory
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's
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Protests against Colombia's police
Fri 18 Sep 2020
The lawyer's death that sparked anti-police riots
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The Indian diamonds losing their shine
Fri 11 Sep 2020
How lockdown left the diamond polishers of Surat with no diamonds, and no jobs.
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The refugee children of Cox's Bazar
Fri 4 Sep 2020
A child’s eye view of the Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
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Getting to know Navalny
Fri 28 Aug 2020
BBC Russian gives us the inside track on Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny
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Breaking taboos in Iran
Fri 21 Aug 2020
The podcast giving a voice to Iranian victims of domestic abuse
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Beirut: after the explosion
Fri 14 Aug 2020
BBC journalists from Beirut share the pain of the present and fears for the future
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The teenager who took on the Taliban
Fri 7 Aug 2020
The story of Qamar Gul, who picked up a gun to defend her home during a Taliban attack
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The Kenyan clan branded 'evil'
Fri 31 Jul 2020
How a colonial slur stuck to the Talai clan, leaving them feared and shunned to this day
