Fifth Floor

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James Dyer
 Jan 26, 2019
Stories I never hear anywhere else

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Faranak Amidi takes a fresh look at the stories of the week with journalists from our 40 language sections.


Episode Date
A journalist’s life in Israel
Apr 13, 2024
My Ramadan
Apr 06, 2024
From prison to president
Mar 29, 2024
Women's radio in Afghanistan
Mar 22, 2024
Israel’s Orthodox Jews and the army
Mar 15, 2024
The gangs of Haiti
Mar 08, 2024
Searching for missing migrants
Mar 01, 2024
Living with war: Ukraine's new normal
Feb 23, 2024
Medicines and cinema: Gaza Lifeline
Feb 19, 2024
What is happening at Zaporizhzhia?
Feb 09, 2024
Election symbols in Pakistan
Feb 02, 2024
Balochistan: Iran Pakistan conflict
Jan 26, 2024
Bring them home: Israel's hostages
Jan 19, 2024
Discovering the real TB Joshua
Jan 12, 2024
Rushdi Abualouf: family, work and war
Jan 11, 2024
Stories of hope and joy
Dec 29, 2023
Ukraine: ancient and modern
Dec 15, 2023
Somalia after the floods
Dec 08, 2023
Breathless: the human cost of flaring
Dec 01, 2023
Sudan's IDP crisis
Nov 24, 2023
Eagles helping locate Israel's dead
Nov 17, 2023
A lifeline for Gaza
Nov 10, 2023
What's happening in Ukraine?
Nov 03, 2023
Meet the BBC Korean team in Seoul
Oct 27, 2023
Israel Gaza conflict: the war of words
Oct 20, 2023
Reporting the Israel Gaza conflict
Oct 13, 2023
Pakistan and Iran: expelling Afghans
Oct 06, 2023
Venezuela's extraordinary prison raid
Sep 29, 2023
Helping Libya’s flood survivors
Sep 22, 2023
Mahsa Amini: the woman behind the icon
Sep 15, 2023
Anti-government protests in Syria
Sep 08, 2023
Reporting Pakistan's cable car rescue
Sep 01, 2023
Families facing starvation in Tigray
Aug 25, 2023
Peshawar's school for Afghans
Aug 18, 2023
Reporting the global heatwave
Aug 11, 2023
Beirut port explosion: 3 years on
Aug 04, 2023
India shamed: Manipur women speak up
Jul 28, 2023
Stories from Sudan Lifeline radio
Jul 21, 2023
Prigozhin and the President
Jul 14, 2023
Tracking Pakistan’s petrol smugglers
Jul 07, 2023
Who's behind Syria's Captagon trade?
Jun 30, 2023
Two villages that lost their sons
Jun 23, 2023
Jungle craft and childhood games
Jun 16, 2023
Afghanistan’s opium problem
Jun 09, 2023
India's women-led households
Jun 02, 2023
Manipur’s deadly tribal clashes
May 26, 2023
Reporting Cyclone Mocha
May 19, 2023
Leaving Sudan
May 12, 2023
A lifeline for Sudan
May 05, 2023
Artists targeted by the state
Apr 28, 2023
Uganda's child pregnancy problem
Apr 21, 2023
Defending against the death penalty
Apr 14, 2023
Indian students returning to Ukraine
Apr 07, 2023
Exposing bogus blindness treatments
Mar 31, 2023
The Fifth Floor in São Paulo
Mar 24, 2023
Aid, politics and Syria’s earthquake
Mar 17, 2023
The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine
Mar 10, 2023
Reporting Iran's school poisonings
Mar 03, 2023
BBC Russian: meet the Riga team
Feb 24, 2023
BBC Ukrainian: a year of war
Feb 17, 2023
Reporting the earthquake
Feb 10, 2023
The Myanmar coup, two years on
Feb 03, 2023
Ukraine’s corruption crackdown
Jan 27, 2023
Belarus language crackdown
Jan 20, 2023
Why Kenyan pupils are burning schools
Jan 13, 2023
The decline of Ukraine’s oligarchs
Jan 06, 2023
Memorable interviews from 2022
Jan 03, 2023
Can saying fool land you in jail?
Jan 03, 2023
Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
Dec 16, 2022
The Arab world and the war in Ukraine
Dec 09, 2022
China protests
Dec 02, 2022
Unmasking a Russian police torturer
Nov 25, 2022
Kherson: a presidential visit
Nov 18, 2022
Reporting COP27
Nov 11, 2022
Ethiopia: an end to the fighting
Nov 04, 2022
Ukraine's water wars
Oct 28, 2022
Iran protests: the ripple effect
Oct 21, 2022
TikTok begging in Syria
Oct 14, 2022
Life in the Russian army
Oct 07, 2022
Mahsa Amini’s father speaks out
Sep 23, 2022
Global perspectives on the death of Queen Elizabeth II
Sep 16, 2022
The forgotten protesters of Belarus
Sep 12, 2022
Reporting Pakistan's floods
Sep 02, 2022
Russia’s colonial past, and present?
Aug 26, 2022
Ukraine's stolen sunflowers
Aug 19, 2022
The end of the 'eternal' glacier?
Aug 12, 2022
What next for women in football?
Aug 05, 2022
Iran’s recent crackdown
Jul 29, 2022
The cost of keeping Putin Covid free
Jul 22, 2022
Ukraine’s art and culture under attack
Jul 15, 2022
Reporting the Afghan earthquake
Jul 08, 2022
Ukraine's foreign fighters
Jul 01, 2022
Colombia's first leftist leader
Jun 24, 2022
Racism for sale
Jun 17, 2022
Is China’s population falling?
Jun 10, 2022
Marriage and war
Jun 06, 2022
Being a Russian in Ukraine
May 27, 2022
Love in a time of war
May 20, 2022
Mariupol: City at the heart of war
May 13, 2022
Tattoo patriotism
May 06, 2022
One country, two refugee experiences
Apr 29, 2022
Why women vote for Modi
Apr 22, 2022
Celebrity vlogger or traitor?
Apr 15, 2022
Who’s advising Zelensky?
Apr 08, 2022
Why Afghan girls remain out of school
Apr 01, 2022
Ukraine: Reporting war at home
Mar 25, 2022
How Russia makes war: Syrian memories
Mar 18, 2022
Sunflowers, sanctions and state media
Mar 11, 2022
Ukraine around the world
Mar 04, 2022
A tale of two Olympians
Feb 18, 2022
No guns on the Ferris wheel
Feb 11, 2022
Teenage mums back at school in Tanzania
Feb 04, 2022
Myanmar coup: One year on
Jan 28, 2022
India's problem with sacred cows
Jan 21, 2022
Journalism under Taliban rule
Jan 14, 2022
The tale of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet
Jan 07, 2022
Iraq 2021
Dec 31, 2021
Songs and social media
Dec 24, 2021
Becoming a ‘foreign agent’
Dec 17, 2021
Reporting the Channel migrant tragedy
Dec 10, 2021
China surveillance system unpicked
Dec 03, 2021
The challenges of filming at altitude
Nov 26, 2021
Afghanistan's Ministry of Vice and Virtue
Nov 19, 2021
Myanmar’s women-only army
Nov 12, 2021
Who are the Oromo Liberation Army?
Nov 05, 2021
Filming Life at 50°C
Oct 29, 2021
The 1961 Paris massacre cover-up
Oct 22, 2021
Why I became a journalist
Oct 15, 2021
Ecuador’s prison battle: The aftermath
Oct 08, 2021
Meet Kenya's Guru of Love
Oct 01, 2021
What's behind Guinea's coup?
Sep 24, 2021
The Kenyan men campaigning against FGM
Sep 17, 2021
Afghanistan: History repeats itself
Sep 10, 2021
Afghanistan: The view from nextdoor
Sep 03, 2021
The valley of Afghan resistance
Aug 27, 2021
Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover
Aug 20, 2021
Russian mercenaries in Libya
Aug 13, 2021
On the front line: New York, Ukraine
Aug 06, 2021
Kyiv march: 'Eucharist is our vaccine'
Jul 30, 2021
Khuzestan: Iran's thirsty province
Jul 23, 2021
Women fighting to inherit
Jul 16, 2021
Burkina Faso gold: A mixed blessing
Jul 09, 2021
Lebanon: A web of corruption
Jul 02, 2021
Hotel Rwanda hero on trial
Jun 25, 2021
Finding treasure inside a whale
Jun 18, 2021
Germany's apology to Namibia
Jun 11, 2021
Visiting Russia’s Arctic military base
Jun 04, 2021
First days of freedom in Yuma
May 28, 2021
I left Gaza, but Gaza did not leave me
May 21, 2021
Mexico's apology to the Mayans
May 14, 2021
Women and peace in Afghanistan
May 07, 2021
Reporting India’s Covid-19 crisis
Apr 30, 2021
Iran's #MeToo
Apr 23, 2021
HRH Prince Philip: the world remembers
Apr 16, 2021
Chile's Covid-19 paradox
Apr 09, 2021
The men making money from migrants
Apr 02, 2021
Remembering a Zulu king
Mar 26, 2021
Syria: Two women, ten years on
Mar 19, 2021
Two to tango
Mar 12, 2021
Life in a Kurdish military camp
Mar 05, 2021
Somalia's election impasse
Feb 26, 2021
Six years on: the murder of Avijit Roy
Feb 19, 2021
Ethiopia's missing refugees
Feb 12, 2021
Myanmar: Reporting the coup
Feb 05, 2021
Somalia: memories, identity and war
Jan 29, 2021
Ten years after Tahrir Square
Jan 22, 2021
Beirut port blast: five months on
Jan 15, 2021
The abandoned Iraqi interpreters
Jan 08, 2021
Vaccines, violence and forests
Jan 01, 2021
Memorable journeys of 2020
Dec 25, 2020
'Milk siblings' and Islam
Dec 18, 2020
A small election in North Macedonia
Dec 11, 2020
China’s provocative political artist
Dec 04, 2020
The self-styled prophet of Siberia
Nov 27, 2020
Explaining Tigray
Nov 20, 2020
Kenya's camel-back clinic
Nov 13, 2020
Turkey’s Armenians under pressure
Nov 06, 2020
Inside the schools that chain boys
Oct 30, 2020
The battle for Florida’s Latino voters
Oct 29, 2020
Raucous rude and simultaneously translated!
Oct 16, 2020
India's secret soldiers
Oct 09, 2020
The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh
Oct 02, 2020
Music and Memory
Sep 25, 2020
Protests against Colombia's police
Sep 18, 2020
The Indian diamonds losing their shine
Sep 11, 2020
The refugee children of Cox's Bazar
Sep 04, 2020
Getting to know Navalny
Aug 28, 2020
Breaking taboos in Iran
Aug 21, 2020
Beirut: after the explosion
Aug 14, 2020
The teenager who took on the Taliban
Aug 07, 2020
The Kenyan clan branded 'evil'
Jul 31, 2020
The president and the hostage-taker
Jul 24, 2020
Risking death for a fragment of jade
Jul 17, 2020
Iran's female gamers
Jul 10, 2020
Nollywood’s Coronavirus intermission
Jul 03, 2020
Filming from behind 5 layers
Jun 26, 2020
The herders caught between two armies
Jun 19, 2020
Brazil's Black Lives Matter protests
Jun 12, 2020
Lockdown in London’s Arabic community
Jun 05, 2020
Profiting from the pandemic
May 29, 2020
The reporter who gave away his shoes
May 22, 2020
The Facebook posts gripping Syrians
May 15, 2020
Garment factories, missing buttons and Antarctic trips
May 08, 2020
Lockdown Ramadan, music and guns
May 01, 2020
Surviving Everest's 2015 earthquake
Apr 24, 2020
Songs of my life
Apr 17, 2020
In praise of eggs
Apr 10, 2020
Lockdown, as seen from Miama, Kampala and Chennai
Apr 03, 2020
Yemen war: a feline perspective
Mar 27, 2020
The Presidents came in two by two
Mar 20, 2020
Stories from a pandemic
Mar 13, 2020
Powerful women in the Mughal dynasty
Mar 06, 2020
The man who sang the Manas
Feb 28, 2020
From refugee to reporter
Feb 21, 2020
Dear auntie....
Feb 14, 2020
The women protesters of Shaheen Bagh
Feb 07, 2020
New life for a Soviet ruin?
Jan 31, 2020
Facing their fathers' crimes
Jan 24, 2020
The man who lost his family
Jan 17, 2020
Australia's camel cull
Jan 10, 2020
India's controversial new citizenship law
Jan 03, 2020
A refugee's story and a football shirt
Dec 27, 2019
Chernobyl: Lyudmila's story
Dec 20, 2019
Music and lockdown in Kashmir
Dec 13, 2019
In praise of pine nuts
Dec 06, 2019
Behind the tragic headlines
Nov 29, 2019
What’s the secret of a happy and active old age?
Nov 22, 2019
Inside the Taliban prison
Nov 15, 2019
The peace corridor of Kartarpur
Nov 08, 2019
Bought and sold like used cars
Nov 01, 2019
A tale of two protests: Chile and Lebanon
Oct 25, 2019
Kenya's camel-back clinic
Oct 18, 2019
Exposing Iraq’s pleasure marriage clerics
Oct 11, 2019
Gandhi in London
Oct 04, 2019
Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian
Sep 27, 2019
Taken from their families: a colonial legacy
Sep 20, 2019
Idlib's “double tap” airstrike
Sep 13, 2019
Lessons for Hong Kong from Ukraine
Sep 06, 2019
Meeting Bobi Wine
Aug 30, 2019
A celebration of peace
Aug 23, 2019
The Venice of Venezuela
Aug 16, 2019
Who were the Blikkiesdorp 5?
Aug 09, 2019
Ebola crisis: fighting fear and despair
Aug 02, 2019
Life at 124°C for Indian brick makers
Jul 26, 2019
My ancestors, the slave traders
Jul 19, 2019
Where do ancient treasures belong?
Jul 05, 2019
Why Pakistan is not polio free
Jun 28, 2019
Fit to report - welcome to BBC Nairobi
Jun 21, 2019
A love story between former enemies
Jun 14, 2019
‘Are we wrong to miss our children?’
Jun 07, 2019
What price scaling Everest?
May 31, 2019
Orangutan, elephants, and dams
May 24, 2019
A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar
May 17, 2019
'Time for the guns to be silent'
May 10, 2019
Healing Iraq's mental wounds
May 03, 2019
Reporting Sri Lankan bomb attacks
Apr 26, 2019
What’s on trend around the world?
Apr 19, 2019
An Egyptian take on Algeria's protests
Apr 12, 2019
The women who joined IS
Apr 05, 2019
Helmand to Hull: an Afghan journey
Mar 29, 2019
A tale of two Somalias
Mar 22, 2019
Killed for seeking justice
Mar 15, 2019
Killed for his faith
Mar 08, 2019
What now for Syria's Kurds?
Mar 01, 2019
The Favourite
Feb 22, 2019
A Kashmir story
Feb 15, 2019
Life in an Afghan Tea-house
Feb 08, 2019
Sudan: Bread, Doctors and Teargas
Feb 01, 2019
The Academy That Made Bolsonaro
Jan 25, 2019
Embedded with US Troops in Iraq
Jan 18, 2019
Iranian Tourists Seeking Traffickers
Jan 11, 2019
In search of snow leopards
Jan 04, 2019
My Country in the News: 2018
Dec 28, 2018
Can India Save the Taj Mahal?
Dec 21, 2018
Staying Alive in Bamenda, Cameroon
Dec 14, 2018
The Story of Mosul's Secret Tunnels
Dec 07, 2018
Weird World Superstitions?
Nov 30, 2018
Who are Algeria's Harkis?
Nov 23, 2018
Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!
Nov 16, 2018
Abiy-mania: Ethiopia Transformed
Nov 09, 2018
My Hanoi Childhood in Five Pictures
Nov 02, 2018
Edible Gold
Oct 26, 2018
Makoko: Stories of Hope
Oct 19, 2018
Spies In The Spotlight
Oct 12, 2018
Bolsonaro: The Man Dividing Brazil
Oct 05, 2018
Don’t Tell Us What to Wear
Sep 28, 2018
Reclaiming Mogadishu’s Sports Stadium
Sep 21, 2018
Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Problem
Sep 14, 2018
The Bengali Kitchen Divide
Sep 07, 2018
Lost Stories from Uzbekistan
Aug 31, 2018
Kerala: Reporting the Floods
Aug 24, 2018
Sinking Jakarta
Aug 17, 2018
Under Fire in South Ossetia
Aug 10, 2018
Poet, painter, lover: Kahlil Gibran
Aug 03, 2018
Voices Across a Divide
Jul 27, 2018
Pakistan's Election Hotseat
Jul 20, 2018
Thai cave rescue: behind the scenes
Jul 13, 2018
Nigeria: herders and farmers in crisis
Jul 06, 2018
Ethiopia & Eritrea: Peace?
Jun 29, 2018
Afghanistan: A Moment of Peace
Jun 22, 2018
Sticks of Power
Jun 15, 2018
Angry and Divided: Nicaragua in Crisis
Jun 08, 2018
Throwing Off The Veil in Iran
Jun 01, 2018
A Tale of Two Flowers in Afghanistan
May 25, 2018
Shot At and Besieged: Quetta's Targeted Community
May 18, 2018
Indonesia's Child Soldiers
May 11, 2018
Being a Naija
May 04, 2018
Afghanistan's Saur Revolution: 40th Anniversary
Apr 27, 2018
Goodbye Castro!
Apr 20, 2018
Unravelling My Father's Mystery Life
Apr 13, 2018
Lula Behind the Scenes
Apr 06, 2018
Handball and Politics on BBC Serbian
Mar 30, 2018
Road Rage, Rumour and Riots: Sri Lanka
Mar 23, 2018
A Rohingya Love Story
Mar 16, 2018
Poison and Spies in Sleepy Salisbury
Mar 09, 2018
Defiant Voices From Eastern Ghouta
Mar 02, 2018
New Names, Old Rivalries
Feb 23, 2018
Love is in the air… and at the BBC!
Feb 16, 2018
Inside the Map of the Afghan Conflict
Feb 09, 2018
Cape Town's Water Challenge
Feb 02, 2018
My Friend and Musician Hugh Masekela
Jan 26, 2018
The Pope in Chile
Jan 19, 2018
Sharing Secrets From the Red Carpet
Jan 12, 2018
Indian Voices From The First World War
Jan 05, 2018
My Name, My Identity
Dec 29, 2017
Witch-hunting in Rajasthan
Dec 22, 2017
Mozambique's 'Ghost' Airport
Dec 15, 2017
Fleeing Home: An Iraqi-Kurdish Story
Dec 08, 2017
Living with Mugabe
Dec 01, 2017
Commuting in the Skies of Medellin
Nov 24, 2017
Being Thai
Nov 17, 2017
Reporting Mosul: A Journalist's Story
Nov 10, 2017
Insulted and spurned: Somali Gabooye
Nov 03, 2017
Apples, Dams and the Taliban
Oct 27, 2017
India's Deccan Queen
Oct 20, 2017
Kenya's Election Drama
Oct 13, 2017
Cameroon's Ghost town protests
Oct 06, 2017
Rwandan BBC journeys
Sep 29, 2017
New Comic Book Heroines
Sep 22, 2017
The Uphill Battle For Hearts And Minds
Sep 15, 2017
Afghanistan's Volatile North
Sep 08, 2017
What's in a Name?
Sep 01, 2017
Damascus Nightlife
Aug 25, 2017
On the world's highest battlefield
Aug 18, 2017
It all started with a letter
Aug 11, 2017
The Trouble with Che
Aug 04, 2017
Brazil: Facing the Legacy of Slavery
Jul 28, 2017
Inside Myanmar's Rakhine State
Jul 21, 2017
Taking Journalism to New Heights
Jul 14, 2017
Biafra War 50 Years On
Jul 07, 2017
South Africa and the Land Question
Jun 30, 2017
Kashmir: Letters across the Divide
Jun 23, 2017
Life Under The Afghan Taliban
Jun 16, 2017
Pyramid Challenge: Sudan Versus Egypt
Jun 09, 2017
Hunger in Venezuela
Jun 02, 2017
Stories from the Silk Road
May 19, 2017
War and Manhood: Breaking the Silence
May 12, 2017
Who are India's Naxalites?
May 05, 2017
Militias, Magic and Wooden Guns
Apr 28, 2017
Who is Yogi Adityanath?
Apr 21, 2017
The Mystery of Tanzania's Kidnapped Rappers
Apr 14, 2017
Where Ex-President Jammeh Went Next
Apr 07, 2017
"The only place I belong"
Mar 31, 2017
First Daughters Club?
Mar 24, 2017
Astana, City of the Steppes
Mar 17, 2017
My Delhi, My India
Mar 10, 2017
A Battle Of Resources Between The Poorest Of The Poor
Mar 03, 2017
Egypt's Silent Stadiums
Feb 24, 2017
Reading The Sky: 21st Century Astrology
Feb 17, 2017
Iran's Kurdish Smugglers
Feb 10, 2017
Translating President Trump
Feb 03, 2017
Tips on Surviving Chinese New Year
Jan 27, 2017
Hanging On To The Keys
Jan 20, 2017
Farewell to Rafsanjani
Jan 13, 2017
Tracking Turkey's Mysterious Murders
Jan 06, 2017
Watching the World
Dec 30, 2016
Saudi Women: Small Steps Towards Change
Dec 23, 2016
Searching for a Fake News Factory
Dec 16, 2016
Gambia's Political Earthquake
Dec 09, 2016
Unravelling an Uzbek Mystery
Dec 02, 2016
Political Parables and Proverbs
Nov 25, 2016
What Next for Kenya's Dadaab Refugees?
Nov 18, 2016
The world view on President-elect Donald Trump
Nov 11, 2016
Saudi Religious Police Under Scrutiny
Nov 04, 2016
Bashiqa: Beyond the Battleground
Oct 28, 2016
US Elections: the View from Miami
Oct 21, 2016
Afghan Refugees: An Uncertain Future
Oct 14, 2016
Yemen's forgotten victims
Oct 07, 2016
Aleppo's citizens, past and present, eulogise their city online
Sep 30, 2016
Kashmir: The Continuing Conflict
Sep 16, 2016
Reporting the Disappeared
Sep 02, 2016
Lashkar Gah: City on the Edge
Aug 19, 2016
Colombia: living with the peace
Aug 12, 2016
Nicaraguan First Lady Rosario Murillo
Aug 05, 2016
Turkey: The Army and the People
Jul 29, 2016
Cairo Calling
Jul 22, 2016
South China Sea: What's in a Name?
Jul 15, 2016
Myanmar: the Long Road to Peace
Jul 11, 2016
"There is a feeling there is just nowhere safe"
Jul 01, 2016
Iran's Forgotten Province
Jun 24, 2016
Closing Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp
Jun 10, 2016