The Fifth Floor Episodes Episode guide
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China’s provocative political artist
Who is the self-proclaimed “wolf warrior” Wuheqilin?
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The self-styled prophet of Siberia
Why did Russia’s FSB arrest a religious leader in the remote Siberian forests?
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Explaining Tigray
What is behind the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region?
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Young, French and Muslim
Exploring the dilemmas facing young Muslims in France today
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Turkey’s Armenians under pressure
Nagorno Karabakh triggers tension between Turks and Turkish Armenians in Istanbul
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Inside the schools that chain boys
How ѿý Arabic uncovered widespread abuse of children in Islamic schools in Sudan
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The battle for Florida’s Latino voters
Florida’s Spanish language ad campaigns target Latino voters in the US election
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How an election kicked off a Kyrgyz crisis
The leaderless protests that brought down government, prime minister and president
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India's secret soldiers
The funeral that revealed India’s covert force of Tibetan refugee fighters
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The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh
Why a small mountainous territory has caused decades of conflict, death and displacement
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Music and memory
Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's
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Protests against Colombia's police
The lawyer's death that sparked anti-police riots
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Behind the camera in Belarus
Capturing protests, detentions and dissent on camera with ѿý Russian
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The refugee children of Cox's Bazar
A child’s eye view of Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
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Focus on Africa: 60 years on
Today’s Focus presenters share standout moments from the past and hopes for the future
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Breaking taboos in Iran
The podcast giving a voice to Iranian victims of domestic abuse
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Beirut: after the explosion
ѿý 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
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'
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
A president, a hostage-taker, and likes for animal rights: one shift with ѿý Ukrainian
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Risking death for a fragment of jade
Scavenging through hazardous cliffs of discarded rubble: Myanmar’s informal jade miners
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Iran's female gamers
Who'd have thought that a third of Iran's gamers were women? Insights from ѿý Persian
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Nollywood’s Coronavirus intermission
Studios shut, premiers paused: Nigeria’s film industry cliff-hanger
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Filming from behind 5 layers
Stifling humidity, and sweating in PPE: filming with the staff of a Mumbai ICU
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The herders caught between two armies
The impact on nomadic herders of the Ladakh border dispute between India and China
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Brazil's Black Lives Matter protests
Different names, same issues: the tragedies behind Brazil’s Black Lives Matter protests
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Lockdown in London’s Arabic community
Doctors, cooks, bus-drivers and pianists: stories from the corona virus lockdown
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Profiting from the pandemic
How organised crime gangs in Mexico and Italy are profiting from the pandemic
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The reporter who gave away his shoes
The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air
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The Facebook posts gripping Syrians
A president, a billionaire, and a very public rift in Syria’s top family