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The Fifth Floor: Make-up and rebellion
In countries like Somalia and Iran, where women are largely expected to present themselves with modesty, what role can make-up play? Bella Hassan of …
1 year, 10 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Supporters of Kamala Harris
Could a woman of colour be the next president of the United States? That is what much of America has been asking this week and it is at the heart of …
1 year, 10 months ago
Heart and Soul: America’s Atheist Street Pirates
On a busy street in Los Angeles a group of people in yellow vests are holding a ladder against a lamppost. Up the ladder, 34-year-old Evan Clark is r…
1 year, 10 months ago
India's wrestling school for girls
In the industrial town of Haryana in Northern India, young girls are breaking barriers training hard to become the next generation of gold medal-winn…
1 year, 10 months ago
The gay activists who won an Olympic-sized battle
In 1993 the legislators in Cobb County Atlanta passed a resolution stating that “lifestyles advocated by the gay community are incompatible with the …
1 year, 10 months ago
Introducing: World of Secrets S3
The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Relatives are still searching for graves, years later. At le…
1 year, 10 months ago
In the Studio: Massimo Bottura
Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana has twice been named the world’s best restaurant. Situated in Bottura’s hometown of Modena, a place renowned fo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Romani holocaust: An unfinished history
The destruction of the Roma by the Nazi state and allies and their subsequent post war fate is little understood and still being written. Historian C…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Fifth Floor: From Paris to the world, Olympics 2024
What is it like to cover such a globally significant sporting event such as the Olympic Games? We've invited three of our Fifth Floor colleagues to d…
1 year, 10 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
The former President, with his face bloodied, surrounded by Secret Service agents, the American flag behind him, his fist in the air defiant – how mu…
1 year, 10 months ago