The Fifth Floor Episodes Episode guide
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14/07/2012
A reporter's diary from four days of covering flash floods in the Russian town of Krymsk
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07/07/2012
Overcoming detention and torture in Tajikistan - a World Service reporter tells his story
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30/06/2012
How a search for genocide survivors led to the start of the Great Lakes radio service
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23/06/2012
We take you behind the scenes of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the fifth floor
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16/06/2012
Russia's conspiracy cookies and does Putin really control the wind and rain?
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09/06/2012
Love in the office? What to do when you work with your spouse in the newsroom
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02/06/2012
Racism, corruption, and football hooliganism - can Ukraine's image get any worse?
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26/05/2012
How Viagra is fast becoming a lucrative black market trade in Kabul
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19/05/2012
D-I-Y Dictator - what attributes and quirks would you add to our bucket of batty despots?
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12/05/2012
Maoist hotline? Why the Hindi service is being used as messenger by the Indian insurgents
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05/05/2012
Bin Laden's letters are released but what do his missives mean?
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28/04/2012
A Charles Taylor perspective from Nigeria, Rwanda and Kenya.
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21/04/2012
What do you say to a suicide bomber? Also, life in volatile Kabul for a journalist.
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14/04/2012
Reporting from the world's highest battlefield - is Siachen worth dying for?
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07/04/2012
Behind the scenes at Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Arabic's first ever feature length documentary on pornography
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31/03/2012
Are politicians taking nicknames too personally - shouldn't they just laugh them off?
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24/03/2012
The tricky business of setting the news agenda – and the battle to get your story heard
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17/03/2012
Reporting Kandahar's massacre and an Afghan's experience of a US army embed.
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10/03/2012
Persian Service vs Iranian government - the media saga continues.
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03/03/2012
Reporting elections: How do you cope when everything goes haywire?
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25/02/2012
Remembering fallen colleagues: dealing with the news of death when it really hits home
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18/02/2012
Austerity, bailout, and the euro - how many different ways can you tell a familiar story?
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11/02/2012
A poignant perspective on conflict reportage, from a man who grew up in the shadow of war.
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04/02/2012
Inside the Arabic Service - how do they verify videos and stories from Syria?
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28/01/2012
Journalistic jargon: How many words can you weave together and still say nothing at all?
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21/01/2012
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Burmese editor on what it's like to report freely from Rangoon, after years of exile
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14/01/2012
The impact of reporting the Arab Spring on family life - a Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú husband and wife tell all.
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The Fifth Floor
Global stories from the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s 40 Language Services, with Faranak Amidi
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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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Russia's call up: what we know
Russia's military call up on the ground