The Fifth Floor: For the love of football
Why is football such a universal language? Three BBC World Service journalists and football fans - Matias Zibell Garcia, Pooria Jafereh and Njoroge Muigai – explain what the game mean to their audienc...
6 Jun 202426min
Bonus: What in the world - Africa and FGM: When will it end?
Female genital mutilation affects around 230 million women and girls globally, with rates highest in Africa. FGM is considered a human rights violation and has no health benefits. That’s according to ...
6 Jun 202412min
Whose Truth?: Online women haters
Attacked on social media - how Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa came under fire for doing her job as a journalist in the Philippines, covering the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. She talks to Babita Sh...
5 Jun 202417min
Whose Truth?: Climate change denial
Nobel Prize laureate Sir Paul Nurse wants science, not politics, to guide the debate surrounding climate change. But how do you convince the denialists? Babita Sharma takes us through the evolving str...
5 Jun 202417min
Whose Truth?: Russia v Ukraine
Can information become a weapon of war? Oleksandra Matviichuk, whose organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is documenting alleged Russian war crimes against Ukraine. She talks to Babita Shar...
5 Jun 202417min
Whose Truth?: The vaccine
How Nobel Prize laureate Katalin Kariko got caught up in the Covid vaccine disinformation wars. What was it like - as someone behind one of the vaccines – to be in the eye of the false information sto...
5 Jun 202417min
Trending: Is Russia targeting Poland's farmers’ protests?
Farmers' protests have been erupting across Europe, and on 20 February one image from a protest in Poland went viral. It showed a tractor carrying a soviet flag and bearing a slogan calling on Russian...
5 Jun 202419min
Assignment: El Salvador – life after the gangs
El Salvador used to be known as one of the most dangerous places in the world. The central American country was dominated by rival gangs who terrorised the population. President Bukele declared a Stat...
4 Jun 202426min
