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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India's secret soldiers
Fri 9 Oct 2020
The funeral that revealed India鈥檚 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鈥檚 eye view of the Cox鈥檚 Bazar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
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Getting to know Navalny
Fri 28 Aug 2020
91热爆 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
91热爆 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
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The president and the hostage-taker
Fri 24 Jul 2020
A president, a hostage-taker, and likes for animal rights: one shift with 91热爆 Ukrainian
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Risking death for a fragment of jade
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Scavenging through hazardous cliffs of rubble: Myanmar鈥檚 informal jade miners
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Iran's female gamers
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Who'd have thought that a third of Iran's gamers were women? Insights from 91热爆 Persian
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Nollywood鈥檚 Coronavirus intermission
Fri 3 Jul 2020
Studios shut, premiers paused: Nigeria鈥檚 film industry cliff-hanger
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Filming from behind 5 layers
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Stifling humidity, and sweating in PPE: filming with the staff of a Mumbai ICU
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The herders caught between two armies
Fri 19 Jun 2020
The impact on nomadic herders of the Ladakh border dispute between India and China
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Brazil's Black Lives Matter protests
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Different names, same issues: the tragedies behind Brazil鈥檚 Black Lives Matter protests
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Lockdown in London鈥檚 Arabic community
Fri 5 Jun 2020
Doctors, cooks, bus-drivers and pianists: stories from the corona virus lockdown
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Profiting from the pandemic
Fri 29 May 2020
How organised crime gangs in Mexico and Italy are profiting from the pandemic
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The reporter who gave away his shoes
Fri 22 May 2020
The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air
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The Facebook posts gripping Syrians
Fri 15 May 2020
A president, a billionaire, and a very public rift in Syria鈥檚 top family
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Garment factories, missing buttons and Antarctic trips
Fri 8 May 2020
Inside Dhaka's garment factories, and a Ukrainian journey to Antarctica
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Lockdown Ramadan, music and guns
Fri 1 May 2020
Egypt鈥檚 Covid-19 Ramadan, Paraguay鈥檚 recycled orchestra, and being Chinese in the USA
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Surviving Everest's 2015 earthquake
Fri 24 Apr 2020
A tale of survival from the world's highest peak: Nepal's earthquake remembered
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Songs of my life
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Making good use of lockdown time, our guests tell the story of their lives through music
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In praise of eggs
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Traditions, sayings and recipes to celebrate eggs around the world
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Lockdown, as seen from Miama, Kampala and Chennai
Fri 3 Apr 2020
Market traders stuck at work, New Yorkers on Florida beaches, and the sound of birdsong
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Yemen war: a feline perspective
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Life under siege in Taiz, as experienced by an imaginary cat
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The Presidents came in two by two
Fri 20 Mar 2020
If one president is good, are two better? Stories from Guinea Bissau and Afghanistan
