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The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery
Why are people in Pakistan struggling to use messaging apps and social media? BBC Urdu's editor Asif Farooqi explains why this might be more than jus…
1 year, 4 months ago
What's it like to have mpox
Mpox causes a headache, fever and a blistering rash all over the body. There have been more than 1,200 cases in parts of Central and West Africa sinc…
1 year, 4 months ago
Synagogue for sale
Dr Aleksandra Janus is a Polish Cultural Anthropologist with a Jewish background from Warsaw, Poland. Living in the capital flattened by Nazi bombs a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bonus: CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?
In a bonus episode from CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?
When listener Watum heard about the Titan submersible implosion in the n…
1 year, 4 months ago
West Bank: settlers, guns and sanctions
For more than six months, a BBC Eye team has been investigating extremist settlers establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding …
1 year, 4 months ago
Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus
The once glamorous Cypriot beach resort of Varosha has stood empty and frozen in time since war divided the island 50 years ago, but it is now partia…
1 year, 4 months ago
Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi
Frank McWeeny heads to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, to meet the underground music community leading protests against government clampdown on freedom of…
1 year, 4 months ago
In the Studio: Laurie Anderson
American artist Laurie Anderson is putting the finishing touches to her new album Amelia at Miraval Studios in southern France. This is Laurie's firs…
1 year, 4 months ago
Three Million: 8. Road to the past
Kavita Puri goes to India to meet the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine. She looks for traces of how war and famine impacted Kolkata and then …
1 year, 4 months ago
The Fifth Floor: Ukraine's 'Memory Cafés'
Could a cup of coffee become an act of love and remembrance? BBC Ukrainian's Ilona Hromliuk speaks to the relatives of fallen soldiers who have opene…
1 year, 4 months ago