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The Documentary Podcast Episodes

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    The Fifth Floor: India's 'godwoman'

    Divya Arya on the flamboyant life of one of India's most influential 'godwomen'

  2. The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

    Ibrat Safo explores Uzbekistan's love story with textiles

  3. The Fifth Floor: How to apologise to a king

    What to do and what to wear when apologising to the Ashanti King of Ghana

  4. The Fifth Floor: From Paris to the world, Olympics 2024

    The Olympics Games through the lens of our Fifth Floor colleagues

  5. The Fifth Floor: For the love of football

    Why is football such a universal language? Stories from Argentina, Iran and Kenya

  6. The Fifth Floor: Fleeing Chechnya

    Why do some young women in Chechnya decide to leave everything behind?

  7. The Fifth Floor: Fighting crime with kitchen spoons

    How a group of Nigerian women came together to protect their community from violence

  8. The Fifth Floor: Exam nightmares

    Stories from India and China about the exams that shape the lives of millions

  9. The Fifth Floor: Education against the odds

    How the 蜜芽传媒's Dars Arabic show is trying to reach children who are out of school

  10. The Fifth Floor: China鈥檚 global mining for green tech

    The Global China Unit's latest report on Chinese mines overseas

  11. The Fifth Floor: China's empty maternity wards

    How falling birth rates led to the closure of over 400 maternity wards in China

  12. The Fifth Floor: Can climate change stories be cool?

    A real life Squid Game in South Korea and a virtual tour of Brazil's giant ravines

  13. The Fifth Floor: Bollywood binge

    Old hits and horror movies: what is trending in Bollywood right now

  14. The Fifth Floor: Behind Georgia's political turmoil

    Why does Georgia find itself in a time of political turmoil?

  15. The Fifth Floor: Are Korean beauty products too light?

    How global demand is reshaping the Korean beauty industry

  16. The Fifth Floor: An Afghan love story

    From the fall of Kabul, to falling in love

  17. The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel

    What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?

  18. The Father of English Football

    How decisions noted by Ebenezer Morley in 1863 allowed football to become the most of...

  19. The fate of Russia鈥檚 soldiers

    Tim Whewell follows the story of a Russian prisoner of war in Ukraine

  20. The famine at the edge of the ocean

    Journalist Raissa Ioussouf meets the people worst affected by Madagascar's famine

  21. The Fake Paralympians: 6.Fallout

    Why are learning disability athletes still feeling the impact of cheating 21 years on?

  22. The Fake Paralympians: 5. Court

    A criminal case is brought against the alleged cheats. Will justice be done?

  23. The Fake Paralympians: 4. Probe

    An investigation into whether the cheating went wider has shocking consequences

  24. The Fake Paralympians: 3. Lost

    The truth is out, the medals handed back. Now the questions. How? And why?

  25. The Fake Paralympians: 2. Caught

    Some of the gold-medal-winning team are recognised back home - and they're not disabled

  26. The Fake Paralympians: 1. Gold

    Team captain Ray is genuinely disabled - and going to Sydney is beyond his wildest dreams

  27. The fake bitcoin mine

    The story of a cryptocurrency scam that cost two men in India their life savings

  28. The Face of China

    What Chinese magazines and their readers tell us about culture and politics in China

  29. The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

    Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters facing a tough decision. Do they stay or do they flee?

  30. The Evidence: Maternal Health in Malawi

    Why do so many women die due to childbirth?

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