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

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Anti-government protests in Syria
How anger at living conditions has become direct criticism of President Bashar al-Assad
08 Sep 2023,40 mins
Reporting Pakistan's cable car rescue
Stories from survivors of the cable car accident and insights into their lives
01 Sep 2023,41 mins
Families facing starvation in Tigray
Thousands in Ethiopia's Tigray region have to beg for food to survive
25 Aug 2023,40 mins
Peshawar's school for Afghans
The teacher offering free schooling for Afghan children in Peshawar
18 Aug 2023,40 mins
Reporting the global heatwave
Wildfires in Tunisia, South Korean ‘fox-rain’ and enduring a Baghdad bakery
11 Aug 2023,40 mins
Beirut port explosion: 3 years on
BBC Arabic’s Carine Torbey meets the people living without answers or justice
04 Aug 2023,40 mins
India shamed: Manipur women speak up
Why women in India’s Manipur state are speaking out about sexual violence
28 Jul 2023,40 mins
Stories from Sudan Lifeline radio
BBC Arabic shares stories of tragedy and hope from Lifeline radio
21 Jul 2023,38 mins
Prigozhin and the President
Reading behind the headlines of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed mutiny
14 Jul 2023,39 mins
Tracking Pakistan’s petrol smugglers
Following in the tracks of the drivers smuggling Iranian petrol into Pakistan
07 Jul 2023,40 mins
Who's behind Syria's Captagon trade?
How the multi-billion dollar Captagon drug trade is controlled by Syrian elites
30 Jun 2023,41 mins
Two villages that lost their sons
Why did so many young men from two small villages drown on the migrant ship?
23 Jun 2023,40 mins
Jungle craft and childhood games
How four children survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle
16 Jun 2023,41 mins
Afghanistan’s opium problem
How Afghanistan became the world's biggest producer of opium
09 Jun 2023,41 mins
India's women-led households
The numbers of women-led households is rising, so what impact will this have on India?
02 Jun 2023,41 mins
Manipur’s deadly tribal clashes
BBC Delhi’s Raghvendra Rao reports on the deadly ethnic clashes in India’s Manipur state
26 May 2023,41 mins
Reporting Cyclone Mocha
Reporting from the heart of the cyclone in Myanmar and Bangladesh
19 May 2023,41 mins
Leaving Sudan
Harassed and unable to report: why BBC Arabic’s Mohamed Osman fled Sudan
12 May 2023,41 mins
A lifeline for Sudan
BBC Arabic's new emergency radio service for Sudan
05 May 2023,41 mins
Artists targeted by the state
How artists and celebrities in Iran and Russia are facing pressure from the state
28 Apr 2023,40 mins
Uganda's child pregnancy problem
Why did child pregnancies rise 300% post Covid?
21 Apr 2023,41 mins
Defending against the death penalty
The independent lawyers in Iran trying to save protesters
14 Apr 2023,42 mins
Indian students returning to Ukraine
Why medical students evacuated in 2022 are returning to Ukraine
07 Apr 2023,41 mins
Exposing bogus blindness treatments
The story behind BBC Arabic’s investigation into bogus treatments for RP
31 Mar 2023,41 mins
The Fifth Floor in São Paulo
BBC Brasil: reporting division and diversity at a time of change
24 Mar 2023,41 mins
Aid, politics and Syria’s earthquake
The challenges and opportunities posed by February’s earthquake in Syria
17 Mar 2023,42 mins
The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine
Who are the Kalinowski Regiment, and why are they fighting Russia in Ukraine?
10 Mar 2023,41 mins
Reporting Iran's school poisonings
The challenges of investigating what’s behind the wave of school poisonings in Iran
03 Mar 2023,41 mins
BBC Russian: meet the Riga team
A new life and a new way of working for BBC Russian’s Moscow journalists, now in Latvia
24 Feb 2023,46 mins
BBC Ukrainian: a year of war
Stories of displacement, separation and front line reporting from BBC Ukrainian
17 Feb 2023,41 mins