The Fifth Floor Episodes Episode guide
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Palu: Reporting The Earthquake
On the scene in Palu, Indonesia after the devastating earthquake and tsunami
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Bolsonaro: The Man Dividing Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro: the controversial far-right candidate who may become president
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Don’t Tell Us What to Wear
Bras, mini-skirts, hijabs: the heated debate about what women should wear
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Reclaiming Mogadishu’s Sports Stadium
A short history of Somalia through a sports stadium
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Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Problem
A controversial appointment that shed light on Pakistan's Amaddiyya community.
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Pilgrimage 'sex tourism' in Iran
Why the holy city of Mashhad is embroiled in a debate about sex tourism
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Lost Stories From Uzbekistan
How a chance encounter brought ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Uzbek's Ibrat Safo a great story
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Kerala: Reporting the Floods
Burst dams, landslides, rooftop rescues, and king pythons: stories from Kerala
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Sinking Jakarta
A fast-sinking city: what can be done about Jakarta?
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Under Fire in South Ossetia
A Georgian journalist remembers his first experience of conflict reporting
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Poet, Painter, Lover: Kahlil Gibran
Celebrating Lebanon's best known poet
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Voices Across a Divide
Families split, and America divided: different views of the migrant debate
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Pakistan’s Election Hotseat
Women bikers, cardboard cutouts and a yellow seat of power: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Urdu tests opinions.
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Russia's Pension Protests
Russians are angry at plans to delay the state pension age
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Nigeria: Herders and Farmers in Crisis
How did historical tensions between farmers and nomadic herders grow into a crisis?
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Ethiopia and Eritrea: What Chance for Peace?
Can Ethiopia and Eritrea move on from Badme?
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Afghanistan: A Moment of Peace
Reporting the ceasefire which brought Afghans from all sides together
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Chile's Child Sex Abuse Crisis
Scandal rocks the Roman Catholic church in Chile
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Angry and Divided: Nicaragua in Crisis
"Shock groups", improvised weapons, and scores dead: a country tearing itself apart
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Throwing Off The Veil in Iran
How a selfie started a mass movement to allow women more freedom in Iran.
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A Tale of Two Flowers in Afghanistan
Roses and opium poppies in Afghan life and culture
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Pakistan's Persecuted Hazaras
Shot at and besieged: Quetta's targeted community
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Indonesia's Child Soldiers
Former enemies, now friends: Ronald and Iskander now campaign for peace
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Behind the Scenes at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Lagos
Undercover Investigations, song and dance, and hot pepper soup from the Lagos Bureau
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Afghanistan's Saur Revolution: 40th Anniversary
'Don't play with the revolution: it is a fire': a reporter's memories from 1978
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Goodbye Castro!
The end of a famous dynasty from a Caribbean island with influence all over the world
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Unravelling My Father's Mystery Life
A Chinese news cutting, and an Indian family enigma: solved on the Fifth Floor
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Inside the Lula Story
Encounters, jokes and surprises: face to face with Brazil's Lula
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Handball and Politics on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Serbian
A new service, but old politics: challenges for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Serbian
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Road Rage, Rumour and Riots: Sri Lanka
Unpicking the story behind the recent outbreak of violence against Muslims in Kandy