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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Anti-government protests in Syria
Fri 8 Sep 2023
How anger at living conditions has become direct criticism of President Bashar al-Assad
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Reporting Pakistan's cable car rescue
Fri 1 Sep 2023
Stories from survivors of the cable car accident and insights into their lives
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Families facing starvation in Tigray
Fri 25 Aug 2023
Thousands in Ethiopia's Tigray region have to beg for food to survive
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Peshawar's school for Afghans
Fri 18 Aug 2023
The teacher offering free schooling for Afghan children in Peshawar
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Reporting the global heatwave
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Wildfires in Tunisia, South Korean 鈥榝ox-rain鈥� and enduring a Baghdad bakery
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Beirut port explosion: 3 years on
Fri 4 Aug 2023
麻豆社 Arabic鈥檚 Carine Torbey meets the people living without answers or justice
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India shamed: Manipur women speak up
Fri 28 Jul 2023
Why women in India鈥檚 Manipur state are speaking out about sexual violence
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Stories from Sudan Lifeline radio
Fri 21 Jul 2023
麻豆社 Arabic shares stories of tragedy and hope from Lifeline radio
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Prigozhin and the President
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Reading behind the headlines of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed mutiny
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Tracking Pakistan鈥檚 petrol smugglers
Fri 7 Jul 2023
Following in the tracks of the drivers smuggling Iranian petrol into Pakistan
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Who's behind Syria's Captagon trade?
Fri 30 Jun 2023
How the multi-billion dollar Captagon drug trade is controlled by Syrian elites
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Two villages that lost their sons
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Why did so many young men from two small villages drown on the migrant ship?
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Jungle craft and childhood games
Fri 16 Jun 2023
How four children survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle
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Afghanistan鈥檚 opium problem
Fri 9 Jun 2023
How Afghanistan became the world's biggest producer of opium
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India's women-led households
Fri 2 Jun 2023
The numbers of women-led households is rising, so what impact will this have on India?
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Manipur鈥檚 deadly tribal clashes
Fri 26 May 2023
麻豆社 Delhi鈥檚 Raghvendra Rao reports on the deadly ethnic clashes in India鈥檚 Manipur state
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Reporting Cyclone Mocha
Fri 19 May 2023
Reporting from the heart of the cyclone in Myanmar and Bangladesh
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Leaving Sudan
Fri 12 May 2023
Harassed and unable to report: why 麻豆社 Arabic鈥檚 Mohamed Osman fled Sudan
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Artists targeted by the state
Fri 28 Apr 2023
How artists and celebrities in Iran and Russia are facing pressure from the state
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Defending against the death penalty
Fri 14 Apr 2023
The independent lawyers in Iran trying to save protesters
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Indian students returning to Ukraine
Fri 7 Apr 2023
Why medical students evacuated in 2022 are returning to Ukraine
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Exposing bogus blindness treatments
Fri 31 Mar 2023
The story behind 麻豆社 Arabic鈥檚 investigation into bogus treatments for RP
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The Fifth Floor in S茫o Paulo
Fri 24 Mar 2023
麻豆社 Brasil: reporting division and diversity at a time of change
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Aid, politics and Syria鈥檚 earthquake
Fri 17 Mar 2023
The challenges and opportunities posed by February鈥檚 earthquake in Syria
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The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Who are the Kalinowski Regiment, and why are they fighting Russia in Ukraine?
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Reporting Iran's school poisonings
Fri 3 Mar 2023
The challenges of investigating what鈥檚 behind the wave of school poisonings in Iran
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麻豆社 Russian: meet the Riga team
Fri 24 Feb 2023
A new life and a new way of working for 麻豆社 Russian鈥檚 Moscow journalists, now in Latvia
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麻豆社 Ukrainian: a year of war
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Stories of displacement, separation and front line reporting from 麻豆社 Ukrainian
