The Fifth Floor Episodes Episode guide
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My ancestors, the slave traders
How I discovered my forefathers traded not only in goods, but also in slaves
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Love, war and friendship
Hope and love in spite of war, and a blood covered gun that began a friendship
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Where do ancient treasures belong?
The sale of Tutankhamun’s head reveals Egypt’s complex relationship with its heritage.
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Why Pakistan is not polio free
Can the powerful forces opposing Pakistan’s polio vaccination programme be overcome?
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Fit to report - welcome to Âé¶¹Éç Nairobi
Meet Kenya’s language teams, and hear stories of camels, wigs, markets and tastes of home
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Inside the Hong Kong protests
Bigger than the 2014 Umbrella protests, but what sparked the new Hong Kong protests?
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Yazidi mothers: an impossible choice
Enslaved by IS, and now free to go home, if they leave their children behind
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What price scaling Everest?
Queues, casualties and a clean-up campaign on Nepal’s holy mountain
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Orangutan, elephants, and dams
Animals under threat in Indonesia’s Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them
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A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar
Making a Rohingya radio drama when you don’t speak the language and neither do the cast
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'Time for the guns to be silent'
Sudan re-imagined by a new generation. Mohanad Hashim meets protesters in Khartoum.
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Healing Iraq's mental wounds
Hope after trauma: healing the people traumatised by decades of violence
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Reporting Sri Lankan bomb attacks
Flying home under the worst circumstances: reports and memories from Ayeshea Perera
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What’s on trend around the world?
Food, sport and global beats: following fashions and passions
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An Egyptian take on Algeria's protests
Algeria's protests, and memories of Cairo’s Tahrir Square
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The women who joined IS
Sold a dream, trapped in reality: what next for the IS wives?
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Helmand to Hull: An Afghan journey
Auliya Atrafi of Âé¶¹Éç Afghan goes back to the city that took him in as an asylum seeker
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A tale of two Somalias
Bomb craters and beaches: Âé¶¹Éç Somali's Qalib Barud in Mogadishu
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Killed for seeking justice
Âé¶¹Éç Urdu’s Humaira Kanwal remembers Afzal Kohistani, and the Kohistan video case
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Carnival: A history of Brazil in samba
Samba and Brazil’s forgotten heroes celebrated in the Rio Carnival
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What now for Syria's Kurds?
Can the Kurdish led Rojava revolution in northern Syria survive the end of the conflict?
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Guns and gold: Russia and CAR
Âé¶¹Éç Russian investigates military links between Russia and the Central African Republic
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Haile Selassie: a complex legacy
A new statue of Ethiopia’s last Emperor, but an old debate about his legacy
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Imprisoned in ‘The Spiral’
Revealing the lives of Venezuelan prisoners in a shopping mall turned detention centre
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Sudan: Bread, Doctors and Teargas
Protests on the streets, detentions and deaths, but will President Bashir stand down?
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The Academy That Made Bolsonaro
Insights into the military academy attended by nearly a third of Bolsonaro’s cabinet
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Embedded with US Troops in Iraq
Combat showers, army rations, and lessons in Iranian culture: Âé¶¹Éç Persian in Iraq
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Iranian Tourists Seeking Traffickers
How Serbia became the gateway for Iranian migrants trying to enter the European Union
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In Search of Snow Leopards
A journey into the remote Altai mountains to look for one of the world's rarest animals
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My Country in the News: 2018
Journalists digest the year’s serious and funny stories, with a nod to social media