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The Fifth Floor Episodes

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    The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh

    Why a small mountainous territory has caused decades of conflict, death and displacement

  2. Music and memory

    Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's

  3. Protests against Colombia's police

    The lawyer's death that sparked anti-police riots

  4. Behind the camera in Belarus

    Capturing protests, detentions and dissent on camera with BBC Russian

  5. The refugee children of Cox's Bazar

    A child’s eye view of Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

  6. Focus on Africa: 60 years on

    Today’s Focus presenters share standout moments from the past and hopes for the future

  7. Breaking taboos in Iran

    The podcast giving a voice to Iranian victims of domestic abuse

  8. Beirut: after the explosion

    BBC journalists from Beirut share the pain of the present and fears for the future

  9. The teenager who took on the Taliban

    The story of Qamar Gul, who picked up a gun to defend her home during a Taliban attack

  10. The Kenyan clan branded 'evil'

    How a colonial slur stuck to the Talai clan, leaving them feared and shunned to this day

  11. The president and the hostage-taker

    A president, a hostage-taker, and likes for animal rights: one shift with BBC Ukrainian

  12. Risking death for a fragment of jade

    Scavenging through hazardous cliffs of discarded rubble: Myanmar’s informal jade miners

  13. Iran's female gamers

    Who'd have thought that a third of Iran's gamers were women? Insights from BBC Persian

  14. Nollywood’s Coronavirus intermission

    Studios shut, premiers paused: Nigeria’s film industry cliff-hanger

  15. Filming from behind 5 layers

    Stifling humidity, and sweating in PPE: filming with the staff of a Mumbai ICU

  16. The herders caught between two armies

    The impact on nomadic herders of the Ladakh border dispute between India and China

  17. Brazil's Black Lives Matter protests

    Different names, same issues: the tragedies behind Brazil’s Black Lives Matter protests

  18. Lockdown in London’s Arabic community

    Doctors, cooks, bus-drivers and pianists: stories from the corona virus lockdown

  19. Profiting from the pandemic

    How organised crime gangs in Mexico and Italy are profiting from the pandemic

  20. The reporter who gave away his shoes

    The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air

  21. The Facebook posts gripping Syrians

    A president, a billionaire, and a very public rift in Syria’s top family

  22. Garment factories, missing buttons and Antarctic trips

    Inside Dhaka's garment factories, and a Ukrainian journey to Antarctica

  23. Lockdown Ramadan, music and guns

    Egypt’s Covid-19 Ramadan, Paraguay’s recycled orchestra, and being Chinese in the USA

  24. Surviving Everest's 2015 earthquake

    A tale of survival from the world's highest peak: Nepal's earthquake remembered

  25. Drag queens, Passover and ultra-Orthodox communities

    Lockdown stories from Israel

  26. In praise of eggs

    Traditions, sayings and recipes to celebrate eggs around the world

  27. Lockdown, as seen from Miama, Kampala and Chennai

    Market traders stuck at work, New Yorkers on Florida beaches, and the sound of birdsong

  28. Yemen war: a feline perspective

    Life under siege in Taiz, as experienced by an imaginary cat

  29. The Presidents came in two by two

    If one president is good, are two better? Stories from Guinea Bissau and Afghanistan

  30. Stories from a pandemic

    Bats, shrines and luxury flights: global stories of Covid-19 from the language services

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