BBC Radio Podcasts from Fifth Floor
A journalist’s life in Israel
What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?
My Ramadan
How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?
From prison to president
The extraordinary rise of Senegal's Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Women's radio in Afghanistan
The women making ‘lifeline’ radio for their sisters confined at home
Israel’s Orthodox Jews and the army
Protests in Israel over the army exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews
The gangs of Haiti
Lawlessness and chaos: how Haiti's gangs became so powerful
Searching for missing migrants
The volunteers looking for migrants missing in the Sonoran Desert
Living with war: Ukraine's new normal
How Ukrainians have adapted to everyday life in wartime
Medicines and cinema: Gaza Lifeline
BBC Arabic’s Gaza Lifeline features everything from life-saving tips to cinema camps
What is happening at Zaporizhzhia?
Investigating safety concerns at Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant, occupied by Russia
Election symbols in Pakistan
Arrows, tigers and cricket bats: why party symbols matter in Pakistan elections
Balochistan: Iran Pakistan conflict
Why are allies Iran and Pakistan firing missiles at each other’s Baloch provinces?
Bring them home: Israel's hostages
The families of Israel’s hostages trying to get them home
Discovering the real TB Joshua
The dark secrets behind the success of the late TB Joshua, Nigerian megachurch founder
Rushdi Abualouf: family, work and war
The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf on reporting the war in Gaza, and now watching from outside
Stories of hope and joy
Seagull neighbours, forest regeneration and a visit home: hopeful stories from 2023
Ukraine: ancient and modern
Diplomatic and military challenges, but victory on the return of ancient treasures
Somalia after the floods
The impact of Somalia's flood crisis, following years of drought
Breathless: the human cost of flaring
How the oil industry’s gas flaring habit is putting health at risk
Sudan's IDP crisis
Sudan has five million internally displaced people forced from their homes by the war
Eagles helping locate Israel's dead
Rare bird tracking data helps locate missing bodies from 7th October attacks
A lifeline for Gaza
BBC Arabic's new emergency radio service for Gaza
What's happening in Ukraine?
The latest on the war from BBC Ukrainian and BBC Monitoring
Meet the BBC Korean team in Seoul
The Fifth Floor meets the team reporting news for audiences in North and South Korea
Israel Gaza conflict: the war of words
How BBC Monitoring is reporting and analysing news from the heart of the conflict
Reporting the Israel Gaza conflict
How the BBC’s language services are reporting Israel's war with Hamas
Pakistan and Iran: expelling Afghans
The growing pressure on undocumented Afghans in Pakistan and Iran to return home
Venezuela's extraordinary prison raid
Retaking control of gang run Tocorón jail, which had a nightclub, pool even a mini-zoo
Helping Libya’s flood survivors
Saving lives in Derna: insights into BBC Media Action’s lifeline programming
Mahsa Amini: the woman behind the icon
Mahsa's mother Mojgan Eftekhari gives her first interview
Anti-government protests in Syria
How anger at living conditions has become direct criticism of President Bashar al-Assad
Reporting Pakistan's cable car rescue
Stories from survivors of the cable car accident and insights into their lives
Families facing starvation in Tigray
Thousands in Ethiopia's Tigray region have to beg for food to survive
Peshawar's school for Afghans
The teacher offering free schooling for Afghan children in Peshawar
Reporting the global heatwave
Wildfires in Tunisia, South Korean ‘fox-rain’ and enduring a Baghdad bakery
Beirut port explosion: 3 years on
BBC Arabic’s Carine Torbey meets the people living without answers or justice
India shamed: Manipur women speak up
Why women in India’s Manipur state are speaking out about sexual violence
Stories from Sudan Lifeline radio
BBC Arabic shares stories of tragedy and hope from Lifeline radio
Prigozhin and the President
Reading behind the headlines of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed mutiny
Tracking Pakistan’s petrol smugglers
Following in the tracks of the drivers smuggling Iranian petrol into Pakistan
Who's behind Syria's Captagon trade?
How the multi-billion dollar Captagon drug trade is controlled by Syrian elites
Two villages that lost their sons
Why did so many young men from two small villages drown on the migrant ship?
Jungle craft and childhood games
How four children survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle
Afghanistan’s opium problem
How Afghanistan became the world's biggest producer of opium
India's women-led households
The numbers of women-led households is rising, so what impact will this have on India?
Manipur’s deadly tribal clashes
BBC Delhi’s Raghvendra Rao reports on the deadly ethnic clashes in India’s Manipur state
Reporting Cyclone Mocha
Reporting from the heart of the cyclone in Myanmar and Bangladesh
Leaving Sudan
Harassed and unable to report: why BBC Arabic’s Mohamed Osman fled Sudan
A lifeline for Sudan
BBC Arabic's new emergency radio service for Sudan
Artists targeted by the state
How artists and celebrities in Iran and Russia are facing pressure from the state
Uganda's child pregnancy problem
Why did child pregnancies rise 300% post Covid?
Defending against the death penalty
The independent lawyers in Iran trying to save protesters
Indian students returning to Ukraine
Why medical students evacuated in 2022 are returning to Ukraine
Exposing bogus blindness treatments
The story behind BBC Arabic’s investigation into bogus treatments for RP
The Fifth Floor in São Paulo
BBC Brasil: reporting division and diversity at a time of change
Aid, politics and Syria’s earthquake
The challenges and opportunities posed by February’s earthquake in Syria
The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine
Who are the Kalinowski Regiment, and why are they fighting Russia in Ukraine?
Reporting Iran's school poisonings
The challenges of investigating what’s behind the wave of school poisonings in Iran
BBC Russian: meet the Riga team
A new life and a new way of working for BBC Russian’s Moscow journalists, now in Latvia
BBC Ukrainian: a year of war
Stories of displacement, separation and front line reporting from BBC Ukrainian
Reporting the earthquake
How BBC Turkish and BBC Arabic have been reporting the earthquake disaster
The Myanmar coup, two years on
Protest, conflict and exile: we hear about Myanmar, two years after the military coup
Ukraine’s corruption crackdown
How has the war affected Ukraine’s long-running efforts to deal with corruption?
Belarus language crackdown
Why it's become dangerous to speak Belarusian in Belarus
Why Kenyan pupils are burning schools
What is driving the phenomenon of Kenyan students burning their boarding schools?
The decline of Ukraine’s oligarchs
How the war with Russia has impacted Ukraine’s super-rich businessmen
Memorable interviews from 2022
The people and stories our journalists can't forget
Can saying fool land you in jail?
Will Istanbul’s mayor be sent to jail for ‘insulting’ language about election officials?
Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
Who is the man behind the Russian mercenary group Wagner?
The Arab world and the war in Ukraine
Insights into how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted the Arab region
China protests
The creative ways Chinese protesters are using to get their voices heard
Unmasking a Russian police torturer
How a group of Russian women exposed the identity of a police officer who terrorised them
Kherson: a presidential visit
Why were Ukrainian social media users talking about a chicken in the bunker?
Reporting COP27
Behind the scenes at Sharm el-Sheikh, and global stories on why COP27 matters
Ethiopia: an end to the fighting
What next after the two sides in the Ethiopian civil war agree to a ceasefire?
Ukraine's water wars
Russia is accused of cutting water supplies in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv
Iran protests: the ripple effect
‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: how a slogan chanted in Iran is echoing across the region
TikTok begging in Syria
What happens to donations sent to displaced Syrian families who livestream on TikTok?
Life in the Russian army
Debt, missing equipment and reports of extortion: life as a Russian soldier
Mahsa Amini’s father speaks out
The father of Mahsa Amini contradicts the official narrative of her death
Global perspectives on the death of Queen Elizabeth II
How the world reported the death of Queen Elizabeth II
The forgotten protesters of Belarus
How Belarusians have been changed by protests, repression and the invasion of Ukraine
Reporting Pakistan's floods
Houses destroyed, crops submerged: why this year’s monsoon is so destructive
Russia’s colonial past, and present?
Russia ‘never stained itself with the bloody crimes of colonialism’: true or false?
Ukraine's stolen sunflowers
Ukraine’s symbolic flower is being stolen in the occupied regions
The end of the 'eternal' glacier?
Indonesia's 'eternal' glacier, living on borrowed time
What next for women in football?
After England’s victory, we look at women's football in Latin America and the Arab world
Iran’s recent crackdown
Iran is tightening its enforcement of strict headscarf laws and limiting pet ownership
The cost of keeping Putin Covid free
Adding up the $54 million bill for keeping Russia’s president Covid free
Ukraine’s art and culture under attack
How Ukraine's culture is falling victim to Russia's war
Reporting the Afghan earthquake
Reporting from the earthquake zone, and stories of survivors
Ukraine's foreign fighters
Military veterans and delivery drivers: who are Ukraine’s foreign fighters?
Colombia's first leftist leader
Gustavo Petro, a former rebel, has become the first leftist president of Colombia
Racism for sale
African kids recording Chinese video messages: cute gimmick or racist exploitation?
Is China’s population falling?
China’s population is expected to fall this year for the first time in over 60 years
Marriage and war
Life after the invasion for a BBC Russian-Ukrainian couple
Being a Russian in Ukraine
Three Russians who call Kyiv home on how their sense of identity has changed
Love in a time of war
Why thousands of couples decided to tie the knot in war-torn Ukraine
Mariupol: City at the heart of war
How a once pro-Russian city became a symbol of resistance to the invasion
Tattoo patriotism
Tattoos of defiance and patriotism in Ukraine
One country, two refugee experiences
Denmark’s refugee policy as experienced by Ukrainians and Syrians
Why women vote for Modi
Chest size or policies: why does Prime Minister Modi appeal to India's women voters?
Celebrity vlogger or traitor?
Why a Chinese vlogger living in Ukraine was branded a traitor
Who’s advising Zelensky?
The president winning over people and parliaments: insights into the man and his advisors
Why Afghan girls remain out of school
Hopes of the promised return to secondary school dashed by the Taliban
Ukraine: Reporting war at home
Reporting a war at home, and why protests and waving Ukrainian flags matters
How Russia makes war: Syrian memories
Why Russian tactics in Ukraine have triggered memories in Syria
Sunflowers, sanctions and state media
Sunflower oil diplomacy and Brazil's Ukrainians: global views of the war in Ukraine
Ukraine around the world
How the BBC's language services are reporting the war in Ukraine
A tale of two Olympians
The Olympic journeys of China's Eileen Gu and Russia's Kamila Valieva
No guns on the Ferris wheel
Memories of days out in Afghan amusement parks, and why the Taliban now can’t take guns
Teenage mums back at school in Tanzania
Teenage mums can return to the classroom after a ban on pregnant schoolgirls was dropped
Myanmar coup: One year on
The stories BBC Burmese will cover to mark the first anniversary of the military coup
India's problem with sacred cows
The havoc being caused by nearly a million stray cows in Uttar Pradesh
Journalism under Taliban rule
How a BBC team in Kabul are adapting to the new Afghanistan
The tale of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet
The significance of a clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia, recently returned to Iraq
Iraq 2021
Elections and migrants: Iraq’s big stories
Songs and social media
Iran's water protests in Isfahan reported through songs and social media
Becoming a ‘foreign agent’
What it means to be named a ‘foreign agent’
Reporting the Channel migrant tragedy
Stories of hope, resilience and tragedy from other migrants facing the same journey
China surveillance system unpicked
The new Chinese surveillance system targeting international students and journalists
The challenges of filming at altitude
Glaciers, vanishing villages and an unexpected trip to a Himalayan hospital
Afghanistan's Ministry of Vice and Virtue
A change of name that has brought painful memories for many Afghans
Myanmar’s women-only army
The Burmese women who decided to form their own anti-junta militia
Who are the Oromo Liberation Army?
Meeting the secretive Ethiopian armed group at a desert training camp
Filming Life at 50°C
Living and working at extreme temperatures: behind the camera with Life at 50°C
The 1961 Paris massacre cover-up
Why the killing of over 100 Algerian protesters by French police was hidden for decades
Why I became a journalist
Nataliya Zotova's journey to journalism, from shy teenager to BBC Russian journalist
Ecuador’s prison battle: The aftermath
How Ecuador’s violent gang rivalry is fuelling armed conflict within prisons
Meet Kenya's Guru of Love
"Get a boyfriend by Christmas", the promise of Kenyan love coach. We find out more
What's behind Guinea's coup?
The ageing and divisive president, and the young officer who led the coup against him
The Kenyan men campaigning against FGM
The men using their status and voices to end female genital mutilation
Afghanistan: History repeats itself
Lost dreams, lost livelihoods and lost voices: the return of the Taliban
Afghanistan: The view from nextdoor
How our journalists from the region are reporting Afghanistan
The valley of Afghan resistance
We hear about the only Afghan province outside Taliban control, Panjshir Valley
Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover
Stories from friends and family now living under the Taliban
Russian mercenaries in Libya
The BBC investigation into the Russian mercenary group Wagner’s mission in Libya
On the front line: New York, Ukraine
How did a town in Ukraine's Donbass conflict zone come to be called New York?
Kyiv march: 'Eucharist is our vaccine'
Why thousands marched through the streets of Kyiv in the name of their Christian faith.
Khuzestan: Iran's thirsty province
Acute water shortages in Khuzestan have caused a wave of unrest
Women fighting to inherit
The Jordanian woman who has been fighting for her inheritance for 20 years
Burkina Faso gold: A mixed blessing
Gold mining and Islamic extremist attacks in Burkina Faso
Lebanon: A web of corruption
BBC Arabic investigates the disastrous state of Lebanon's electricity sector
Hotel Rwanda hero on trial
Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina faces terrorism charges
Finding treasure inside a whale
The Yemeni fishermen who found ambergris worth $1.5m inside a dead whale
Germany's apology to Namibia
A century in the making: saying sorry for colonial era genocide of the Nama and Herero
Visiting Russia’s Arctic military base
How Russia is defending its interests in the Arctic
First days of freedom in Yuma
Meet the Meza family, seeking asylum in border town Yuma, Arizona
I left Gaza, but Gaza did not leave me
Your family is there, your colleagues are there: watching conflict at home from abroad
Mexico's apology to the Mayans
A belated apology from Mexico’s president, but is it too little and too late?
Women and peace in Afghanistan
What women in Herat and Kandahar hope and fear for any peace deal
Reporting India’s Covid-19 crisis
Meet the team living and reporting in the eye of India’s coronavirus storm
Iran's #MeToo
Allegations against a popular singer have divided Iran's #MeToo movement
HRH Prince Philip: the world remembers
How 3 language services covered the Prince's death; and Myanmar’s festival protests
Chile's Covid-19 paradox
Why Chile's high vaccine rollout has not meant the end of the Covid-19 pandemic
The men making money from migrants
The people smuggler and the migrant: two stories from Afghanistan
Remembering a Zulu king
The life and legacy of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini
Syria: Two women, ten years on
When civil war breaks out, how do you decide whether to leave or stay?
Two to tango
Remembering Astor Piazzolla, the man who revolutionised tango
Life in a Kurdish military camp
The Iranian Kurds risking death to train as Peshmerga fighters with Komala
Somalia's election impasse
Clans, protests and a constitutional crisis after the President’s term expires
Six years on: the murder of Avijit Roy
As five men are sentenced to be hanged, BBC Bangla’s Akbar Hossain reflects on the case
Ethiopia's missing refugees
Why thousands of Eritrean refugees from camps in Tigray are still unaccounted for
Myanmar: Reporting the coup
Protests, civil disobedience and fear as Myanmar's new military rulers take control
Somalia: memories, identity and war
Lost photographs and fragments of childhood memories: a child refugee remembers
Ten years after Tahrir Square
How do the people involved in Egypt's 2011 revolution feel about it now?
Beirut port blast: five months on
A search for truth and repairing the blast's physical, political and psychological damage
The abandoned Iraqi interpreters
Iraqi interpreters feel under threat from local militias as coalition forces withdraw
Vaccines, violence and forests
Looking ahead to 2021 in Brazil, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Memorable journeys of 2020
Stories from Indian-adminstered Kashmir, Trump’s America and frontline Nagorno Karabakh
'Milk siblings' and Islam
Breastfeeding other women’s babies in Islam, and the bond between those children
A small election in North Macedonia
“Yugo-stories”: why a BBC Serbian reporter went to Stip to meet one candidate
China’s provocative political artist
Who is the self-proclaimed “wolf warrior” Wuheqilin?
The self-styled prophet of Siberia
Why did Russia’s FSB arrest a religious leader in the remote Siberian forests?
Explaining Tigray
What is behind the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region?
Kenya's camel-back clinic
Getting medicines and healthcare to Kenya's remote nomadic communities
Turkey’s Armenians under pressure
Nagorno Karabakh triggers tension between Turks and Turkish Armenians in Istanbul
Inside the schools that chain boys
How BBC Arabic uncovered widespread abuse of children in Islamic schools in Sudan
The battle for Florida’s Latino voters
Florida’s Spanish language ad campaigns target Latino voters in the US election
Raucous rude and simultaneously translated!
Rendering the feisty US presidential debates into Farsi, with BBC Persian
India's secret soldiers
The funeral that revealed India’s covert force of Tibetan refugee fighters
The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh
Why a small mountainous territory has caused decades of conflict and displacement
Music and Memory
Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's
Protests against Colombia's police
The lawyer's death that sparked anti-police riots
The Indian diamonds losing their shine
How lockdown left the diamond polishers of Surat with no diamonds, and no jobs.
The refugee children of Cox's Bazar
A child’s eye view of the Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
Getting to know Navalny
BBC Russian gives us the inside track on Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny
Breaking taboos in Iran
The podcast giving a voice to Iranian victims of domestic abuse
Beirut: after the explosion
BBC journalists from Beirut share the pain of the present and fears for the future
The teenager who took on the Taliban
The story of Qamar Gul, who picked up a gun to defend her home during a Taliban attack
The Kenyan clan branded 'evil'
How a colonial slur stuck to the Talai clan, leaving them feared and shunned to this day
The president and the hostage-taker
A president, a hostage-taker, and likes for animal rights: one shift with BBC Ukrainian
Risking death for a fragment of jade
Scavenging through hazardous cliffs of rubble: Myanmar’s informal jade miners
Iran's female gamers
Who'd have thought that a third of Iran's gamers were women? Insights from BBC Persian
Nollywood’s Coronavirus intermission
Studios shut, premiers paused: Nigeria’s film industry cliff-hanger
Filming from behind 5 layers
Stifling humidity, and sweating in PPE: filming with the staff of a Mumbai ICU
The herders caught between two armies
The impact on nomadic herders of the Ladakh border dispute between India and China
Brazil's Black Lives Matter protests
Different names, same issues: the tragedies behind Brazil’s Black Lives Matter protests
Lockdown in London’s Arabic community
Doctors, cooks, bus-drivers and pianists: stories from the corona virus lockdown
Profiting from the pandemic
How organised crime gangs in Mexico and Italy are profiting from the pandemic
The reporter who gave away his shoes
The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air
The Facebook posts gripping Syrians
A president, a billionaire, and a very public rift in Syria’s top family
Garment factories, missing buttons and Antarctic trips
Inside Dhaka's garment factories, and a Ukrainian journey to Antarctica
Lockdown Ramadan, music and guns
Egypt’s Covid-19 Ramadan, Paraguay’s recycled orchestra, and being Chinese in the USA
Surviving Everest's 2015 earthquake
A tale of survival from the world's highest peak: Nepal's earthquake remembered
Songs of my life
Making good use of lockdown time, our guests tell the story of their lives through music
In praise of eggs
Traditions, sayings and recipes to celebrate eggs around the world
Lockdown, as seen from Miama, Kampala and Chennai
Market traders stuck at work, New Yorkers on Florida beaches, and the sound of birdsong
Yemen war: a feline perspective
Life under siege in Taiz, as experienced by an imaginary cat
The Presidents came in two by two
If one president is good, are two better? Stories from Guinea Bissau and Afghanistan
Stories from a pandemic
Bats, shrines and luxury flights: global stories of Covid-19 from the language services
Powerful women in the Mughal dynasty
Putting the spotlight on the women behind the throne
The man who sang the Manas
Remembering Saparbek Kasmambet, famous performer of epic Kyrgyz poem, the Manas
From refugee to reporter
Three BBC Afghan journalists share memories of refugee life in Pakistan
Dear auntie....
The agony aunts and uncles offering advice on the world's personal problems
The women protesters of Shaheen Bagh
The Muslim women who have come onto the streets to protest against discrimination
New life for a Soviet ruin?
The Georgian spa resort, the refugees, and the billionaire
Facing their fathers' crimes
The Argentinians denouncing their fathers’ crimes during the brutal military dictatorship
The man who lost his family
How a brief war between Pakistan and India separated families for fifty years
Australia's camel cull
Camel owner and BBC Somali reporter talks camels with BBC Afghan camel historian
India's controversial new citizenship law
Why a citizenship law aimed at foreign refugees is alarming Indian Muslims
A refugee's story and a football shirt
Dreams of playing for Chelsea: the extraordinary journey of BBC Arabic’s Namak Khoshnaw
Chernobyl: Lyudmila's story
The story of the woman whose life was shown in the TV series Chernobyl
Music and lockdown in Kashmir
Ishleen Kaur meets the Srinagar-based rapper Ahmer Javed
In praise of pine nuts
A winter snack to share with friends: why Afghans love their pine nuts
Behind the tragic headlines
How BBC Vietnamese pieced together the lorry deaths story
What’s the secret of a happy and active old age?
The Costa Rican centenarians who eat and sleep well - and carry on riding
Inside the Taliban prison
Meeting the Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison
The peace corridor of Kartarpur
Historic agreement gives Indian Sikhs access to Sikh temple in Pakistan
Bought and sold like used cars
BBC Arabic investigates domestic maids being traded on commodity apps in Kuwait
A tale of two protests: Chile and Lebanon
How small events in Chile and Lebanon triggered an outpouring of public anger
Kenya's camel-back clinic
Taking the doctors to the herders: all aboard the medical camel caravan
Exposing Iraq’s pleasure marriage clerics
The clerics who profit from exploiting Iraq’s vulnerable women: BBC Arabic investigates
Gandhi in London
Mohandas Gandhi the law student and Mahatma Gandhi the leader: two visits to London
Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian
Stories from Russia through the eyes of the journalists in the Moscow bureau
Taken from their families: a colonial legacy
Meeting the mixed race people taken from their African mothers in Belgium’s colonial era
Idlib's “double tap” airstrike
Verifying an airstrike which the authorities deny ever happened
Lessons for Hong Kong from Ukraine
Why a Ukrainian film about Kiev’s Maidan Square protests has taken off in Hong Kong
Meeting Bobi Wine
Uganda’s rapper turned politician who’s challenging President Yoweri Museveni
A celebration of peace
Ethiopia’s Oromo and Somali communities come together to celebrate a commitment to peace
The Venice of Venezuela
El Morro: yachts, canals, and security
Who were the Blikkiesdorp 5?
BBC Africa’s Vauldi Carelse tells the stories of men killed in Blikkiesdorp, Cape Town
Ebola crisis: fighting fear and despair
Ebola has hit almost every place BBC Africa's Gaius Kowene has lived, as he explains
Life at 124°C for Indian brick makers
Smoke, scorched shoes and unbearable heat: life for India's brick makers
My ancestors, the slave traders
How I discovered my forefathers not only traded goods to the Americas, but also slaves
Where do ancient treasures belong?
The sale of Tutankhamun’s head reveals Egypt’s complex relationship with its heritage
Why Pakistan is not polio free
Can the forces opposing Pakistan’s polio vaccination programme finally be overcome?
Fit to report - welcome to BBC Nairobi
Meet Kenya’s language teams, and hear stories of camels, wigs, markets and tastes of home
A love story between former enemies
How a former Tamil Tiger soldier and Sinhalese Civil Defence recruit found love
‘Are we wrong to miss our children?’
An impossible choice for Yazidi mothers: leave your IS child or you cannot come home
What price scaling Everest?
Queues, casualties and a clean-up campaign on Nepal’s holy mountain
Orangutan, elephants, and dams
Animals under threat in Indonesia’s Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them
A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar
You don’t speak the language and neither do the cast: how to make a Rohingya radio drama
'Time for the guns to be silent'
Sudan re-imagined by a new generation. Mohanad Hashim meets protesters in Khartoum.
Healing Iraq's mental wounds
Healing the people traumatised by decades of violence
Reporting Sri Lankan bomb attacks
Flying home under the worst circumstances: reports and memories from Ayeshea Perera
What’s on trend around the world?
Food, sport and global beats: following fashions and passions
An Egyptian take on Algeria's protests
Algeria's protests, and memories of Cairo’s Tahrir Square
The women who joined IS
Sold a dream, trapped in reality: what next for the IS wives?
Helmand to Hull: an Afghan journey
Auliya Atrafi of BBC Afghan goes back to the city that took him in as an asylum seeker
A tale of two Somalias
Bomb craters and beaches: BBC Somali's Qalib Barud in Mogadishu
Killed for seeking justice
BBC Urdu’s Humaira Kanwal remembers Afzal Kohistani, and the Kohistan video case
Killed for his faith
BBC Arabic's Eli Melki retraces the footsteps of his martyred ancestor
What now for Syria's Kurds?
Can the Kurdish-led Rojava revolution in northern Syria survive the end of the conflict?
The Favourite
How 18th century English court life resonates in 21st century corridors of power
A Kashmir story
The tragic event that made Aamir Peerzada a journalist
Life in an Afghan Tea-house
In praise of Afghanistan's traditional chaikhana
Sudan: Bread, Doctors and Teargas
Protests on the streets, detentions and deaths, but will President Bashir stand down?
The Academy That Made Bolsonaro
Insights into the military academy attended by nearly a third of Bolsonaro’s cabinet
Embedded with US Troops in Iraq
Combat showers, army rations, and lessons in Iranian culture: BBC Persian in Iraq
Iranian Tourists Seeking Traffickers
How Serbia became the gateway for Iranian migrants trying to enter the European Union
In search of snow leopards
A journey into the remote Altai mountains to look for one of the world's rarest animals
My Country in the News: 2018
Journalists digest the year’s serious and funny stories, with a nod to social media
Can India Save the Taj Mahal?
Pollution, structural weakness and political apathy threaten India’s famous monument.
Staying Alive in Bamenda, Cameroon
How your hair, your clothes, even your physique can get you killed
The Story of Mosul's Secret Tunnels
Hidden treasures and old exam papers in the tunnels under Mosul
Weird World Superstitions?
Pick up that bread, and don't cut that pear in half! Strange superstitions worldwide
Who are Algeria's Harkis?
Meeting the Algerians who fought on the side of France in the Algerian independence war
Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!
BBC India's adventurous reporters join the cliff-face wild honey harvesters of Nepal
Abiy-mania: Ethiopia Transformed
Peace with Eritrea, exiles returned, women in high office: half a year of PM Abiy Ahmed
My Hanoi Childhood in Five Pictures
A new collection of photos, “Hanoi After the War”, triggers memories
Edible Gold
Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, and no Iranian kitchen would be without it.
Makoko: Stories of Hope
An upbeat view of Lagos's notorious floating slum
Spies In The Spotlight
Is Russian spycraft in decline, with the recent unmasking of two secret agents?
Bolsonaro: The Man Dividing Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro: the controversial far-right candidate who may become president
Don’t Tell Us What to Wear
Bras, mini-skirts, hijabs: the heated debate about what women should wear
Reclaiming Mogadishu’s Sports Stadium
Reclaiming Mogadishu’s sports stadium
Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Problem
A controversial appointment that shed light on Pakistan's Amaddiyya community.
The Bengali Kitchen Divide
Poppy seeds and sugar, or chilli and dried fish: Bengal’s kitchen divide
Lost Stories from Uzbekistan
How a chance encounter brought BBC Uzbek's Ibrat Safo a great story
Kerala: Reporting the Floods
Burst dams, landslides, rooftop rescues, and king pythons: stories from Kerala
Sinking Jakarta
A fast-sinking city: what can be done about Jakarta?
Under Fire in South Ossetia
A Georgian journalist remembers his first experience of conflict reporting
Poet, painter, lover: Kahlil Gibran
Celebrating Lebanon's best known poet
Voices Across a Divide
Families split, and America divided: different views of the migrant debate
Pakistan's Election Hotseat
Women bikers, cardboard cutouts and a yellow seat of power: BBC Urdu tests opinions.
Thai cave rescue: behind the scenes
Meet the volunteers who helped the Thai cave rescue operation
Nigeria: herders and farmers in crisis
How did historical tensions between farmers and nomadic herders grow into a crisis?
Ethiopia & Eritrea: Peace?
Smiles and handshakes after 20 years: can Ethiopia and Eritrea move on from Badme?
Afghanistan: A Moment of Peace
Reporting the ceasefire which brought Afghans from all sides together
Sticks of Power
How the "siinque" empowers Oromo women
Angry and Divided: Nicaragua in Crisis
"Shock groups", improvised weapons, and scores dead: a country tearing itself apart
Throwing Off The Veil in Iran
How a selfie started a mass movement to allow women more freedom in Iran
A Tale of Two Flowers in Afghanistan
Roses and opium poppies in Afghan life and culture
Shot At and Besieged: Quetta's Targeted Community
Taking a look at the persecuted Hazara community of Pakistan
Indonesia's Child Soldiers
Former enemies, now friends: Ronald and Iskander now campaign for peace
Being a Naija
500 languages, 180 million people: how do Nigerians see themselves?
Afghanistan's Saur Revolution: 40th Anniversary
'Don't play with the revolution: it is a fire': memories from 1978
Goodbye Castro!
The end of a famous dynasty from a Caribbean island with influence all over the world
Unravelling My Father's Mystery Life
A Chinese news cutting and an Indian family enigma: solved on the Fifth Floor
Lula Behind the Scenes
Encounters, jokes and surprises: face to face with Brazil's Lula
Handball and Politics on BBC Serbian
A new service, but old politics: challenges for BBC Serbian
Road Rage, Rumour and Riots: Sri Lanka
Unpicking the story behind the recent outbreak of violence against Muslims in Kandy
A Rohingya Love Story
Two lovers reunited in a refugee camp
Poison and Spies in Sleepy Salisbury
The spy mystery that put Salisbury on the map for BBC Russian
Defiant Voices From Eastern Ghouta
Rebel women, and a rebellious history: behind the headlines of Eastern Ghouta
New Names, Old Rivalries
Why are Embassy streets being renamed in Washington and Ankara?
Love is in the air… and at the BBC!
Salim Kikeke, Kathy Harcombe and Valeria Perasso discuss romance on the Fifth Floor
Inside the Map of the Afghan Conflict
Abandoned orchards, deadly landmines, and a commander nicknamed The Terminator
Cape Town's Water Challenge
Unflushed toilets and recycled bath water: tricks to living on 50 litres per day
My Friend and Musician Hugh Masekela
Who was the man behind South Africa's jazz sound? Audrey Brown discusses Hugh Masekela
The Pope in Chile
Two popes, two Chiles: through the eyes of a reporter who witnessed both papal visits
Sharing Secrets From the Red Carpet
Fashion and glamour, but also high heels and hard work. Meet our Hollywood reporters
Indian Voices From The First World War
The song of a butter loving Indian prisoner of war, recorded in 1916
My Name, My Identity
What someone's name can tell you about family, religion and ethnicity
Witch-hunting in Rajasthan
"The word witch is changing people's lives and it's not a joke": India's witch problem
Mozambique's 'Ghost' Airport
No flights, dark corridors and empty carousels: what went wrong for Nacala airport?
Fleeing Home: An Iraqi-Kurdish Story
Images of Kurds fleeing Kirkuk trigger memories of another exodus in 1990s Iraq
Living with Mugabe
Optimism, disillusionment and now a new era. Reflections on the Mugabe years
Commuting in the Skies of Medellin
How an urban cable car bridges the divide between rich and poor
Being Thai
Language, food and style may differ, but what unites Thais?
Reporting Mosul: A Journalist's Story
Flak jackets, shelling and civilian tragedies: tales from the frontline
Insulted and spurned: Somali Gabooye
Shoemakers, midwives, blacksmiths: the Gabooye clans at the bottom of Somali society
Apples, Dams and the Taliban
A risky assignment in Afghanistan's beautiful Wardak Province
India's Deccan Queen
From mountain to coast, through forest and cloud, and dining on omelette and cutlets
Kenya's Election Drama
With twists and turns that rival soap opera, where now for Kenya's re-run election?
Cameroon's Ghost town protests
Cameroon's Ghost town protests.
Rwandan BBC journeys
What inspired two Great Lakes journalists to work at the BBC? David Amanor finds out.
New Comic Book Heroines
Pakistan Girl and Nigeria's Ngozi: super-heroines making the world a better place
The Uphill Battle For Hearts And Minds
For coalition forces in Afghanistan, the information war hasn't always gone to plan.
Afghanistan's Volatile North
Taliban, IS, government forces and warlords: the battle for control in Darzab district.
What's in a Name?
Taboos and traditions surrounding names.
Damascus Nightlife
Bars, clubs and pubs: BBC Arabic reveals a surprising new nightlife in Syria's capital.
On the world's highest battlefield
BBC Urdu scale Siachen Glacier, frozen site of an India-Pakistan stalemate
It all started with a letter
How letters from 70 years ago are still bringing people together
The Trouble with Che
Not everyone loves Che Guevara in his home country of Argentina
Brazil: Facing the Legacy of Slavery
Difficult questions for Brazilians about slavery in their country
Inside Myanmar's Rakhine State
Burnt out mosques, segregated schools, and refugee camps: what now for the Rohingya?
Taking Journalism to New Heights
BBC Urdu saddle up to get the story at the top of a mountain
Biafra War 50 Years On
What do young Nigerians know about arguably the worst conflict in the country's history?
South Africa and the Land Question
BBC Africa's Audrey Brown visits a Cape vineyard attempting to right past wrongs.
Kashmir: Letters across the Divide
Teenage letters from different sides of the Kashmir dispute
Life Under The Afghan Taliban
Life under the Afghan Taliban
Pyramid Challenge: Sudan Versus Egypt
Why have pyramids sparked off a row between Sudan and Egypt?
Hunger in Venezuela
Venezuela is experiencing food shortages, and children in particular are suffering
Stories from the Silk Road
A journey along the ancient Silk Road - with some surprises along the way.
War and Manhood: Breaking the Silence
Colombia's civil conflict has claimed many casualties, but some injuries are still taboo.
Who are India's Naxalites?
India's Naxalites, Guyana rodeo, Japanese yakuza, Sierra Leone diamonds, Chinese dating
Militias, Magic and Wooden Guns
Meeting DR Congo's newest rebels
Who is Yogi Adityanath?
India's Yogi Adityanath; Soviet apartments; ending Kony hunt; China's tv corruption drama
The Mystery of Tanzania's Kidnapped Rappers
Three musicians went missing in unexplained circumstances - why were they targeted?
Where Ex-President Jammeh Went Next
Equatorial Guinea, Kohat guavas, Afghan warlords, art of capoeira, betting in Vietnam.
"The only place I belong"
My Yemen; Brazilian stories; Russians abroad; Indian attacks; cleaning up Thai sex trade
First Daughters Club?
First daughters; Thai street food; India's phone Romeos; escape from Raqqa; joy in CAR.
Astana, City of the Steppes
Astana; Brazilian ghosts; Harare potholes; Belarus protests; fire jumping; Somali pirates
My Delhi, My India
Pollution and wide open spaces; when elections get personal; and why identity matters
A Battle Of Resources Between The Poorest Of The Poor
South African attacks, Congolese Libanga, Kurdish fiction, Taliban trees and North Sinai
Egypt's Silent Stadiums
Empty football stadia; Ethiopian raw meat; PC Carnival; mother tongues; Somali nicknames
Reading The Sky: 21st Century Astrology
How astrology and astrologers are adapting to a technological age
Iran's Kurdish Smugglers
Kurdish smugglers; Colombian accents; Russian poison; snake-catchers; Romanian protests.
Translating President Trump
Presidential translation, Colombia ELN, Somali elections, deference, "broken neck girl"
Tips on Surviving Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, Ukrainian satire, Nepal poet, Sahrawi refugees and driving test tales.
Hanging On To The Keys
Official handovers, memorable scams, Soviet jazz, 'sitting the month', Latin lunches
Farewell to Rafsanjani
Rafsanjani tributes, Gambia's judges, bull-taming, menstruation huts, Uhuru challenge
Tracking Turkey's Mysterious Murders
Russian killers in Turkey; Afghan eyebrows; borders; handball; India's House of Cards
Watching the World
Wars, revolutions, chubby squirrels and jihadi hairstyles, as seen from Caversham Park.
Saudi Women: Small Steps Towards Change
Saudi women after the vote; 2016 highs/lows; Afghan fashion fuss; China's Titanic; Fifi
Searching for a Fake News Factory
Fake news; Gambia re-visited; Daredevils of Sassoun; Dakar workouts; Polygon timewarp
Gambia's Political Earthquake
Gambian election; Guyana dress; Dastangoi; Bogota bus fares; Egypt's sugar; Wiki women
Unravelling an Uzbek Mystery
Gulnara Karimova; Castro's outfits; Palestinian songs; Koranic reciter; Afghan kitchen
Political Parables and Proverbs
Ghana election; Afghan kites; Nepal's civil war; Libyan monkey business; Hindi comics
What Next for Kenya's Dadaab Refugees?
Closing Dadaab; Russia's rival parades: weddings and the taxman; Iran's fencers
The world view on President-elect Donald Trump
Trump's victory; Ivan the Terrible; Syrian soul food; a portrait of Kashmir
Saudi Religious Police Under Scrutiny
Social change in Saudi, Mombasa night weddings, and the missing Kyrgyz constitution.
Bashiqa: Beyond the Battleground
Memories of 'little Iraq'; translating body language; Crimean holidays; Jakarta rats
US Elections: the View from Miami
Coffee and politics with BBC Mundo, covering the US elections for Latin America.
Afghan Refugees: An Uncertain Future
Afghan exodus, China's love affair with a 7th century judge, and who are the Nubians?
Yemen's forgotten victims
Exposing Yemen's crisis, the stray dogs of Delhi, life in post-coup Turkey.
Aleppo's citizens, past and present, eulogise their city online
Aleppo in pictures; Kenya's tribal beekeepers; Afropunk; Colombian peace; Queen of Katwe
Kashmir: The Continuing Conflict
Kashmir curfew; Nomad Games; Kenyan band; lifting the Hindu veil; Syrian soap opera; Fifi
Reporting the Disappeared
Reporting on the disappeared; Bengali soap operas and Moroccan marriage festivals
Lashkar Gah: City on the Edge
Afghan city on the edge of war; an emoji for a nation; and political dynasties in India
Colombia: living with the peace
The cost of peace in Colombia; two Syrian footballers; Tajikistan's banned words
Nicaraguan First Lady Rosario Murillo
Nicaragua's First Lady, Harry Potter's multilingual appeal and Khartoum in short stories.
Turkey: The Army and the People
Turkey's army and its people, tackling leprosy in Brazil, spoken word poetry in Nairobi
Cairo Calling
Egypt: Suez; How to be an Egyptian; Tahrir and me; and citizen journalism
South China Sea: What's in a Name?
South China sea; Zimbabwe protests; Egypt in song; building bridges; 5th Floor Sapeurs
Myanmar: the Long Road to Peace
Myanmar's ethnic conflicts, Russian rock and the military, remembering Abbas Kiarostami.
"There is a feeling there is just nowhere safe"
Turkey under attack; Afghan Ramadan; singing Ghazals; Sunni Shia families; Tbilisi zoo
Iran's Forgotten Province
Sistan Baluchistan, Mar Mar Aye, Russian dream, South Africa; Bangladeshi women in news
Closing Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp
Dadaab refugee camp; Lapis Lazuli and the musical identity of Nepal