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BBC World Service - Fifth Floor
17.12.19
Original insights, playful perspectives and surprising stories from the World Service's 27 language sections. Every week with David Amanor. - Ein wöchentlicher Blick hinter die Kulissen der 27 Sprachdienste des Weltdienstes der BBC, moderiert von David Amanor.
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| Datei | Datum | Inhalt | Dauer |
| 0104 | 04.01 | In Search of Snow Leopards There are only around 4000 snow leopards left in the mountains of Central and South Asia. Yulia James of BBC Russian has been to the Altai region of Siberia in search of these elusive animals. | 09:56 |
| 0111 | 11.01 | Iranian Tourists Seeking Traffickers A visa-free travel agreement between Iran and Serbia meant to boost tourism has been used by thousands of Iranians trying to enter the European Union. BBC Persian's Rana Rahimpour teamed up with BBC Serbian’s Stefan Veselinovic to hear the stories of Iranians in the Serbian capital Belgrade. | 11:49 |
| 0118 | 18.01 | Embedded with US Troops in Iraq The Americans plan to pull out of Syria but are continuing the fight against so-called Islamic State from a newly-built base just inside the Iraqi border. Nafiseh Kohnavard of BBC Persian gained rare access and tells us about her experiences living alongside the troops. | 10:10 |
| 0125 | 25.01 | The Academy That Made Bolsonaro Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took office at the beginning of the year with a promise to bring military values to a country weary of political corruption scandals. Nearly a third of his cabinet are from the armed forces, all graduates from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy that Bolsonaro also attended. BBC Brasil’s Julia Carniero took a tour. | 11:48 |
| 0201 | 01.02 | Sudan: Bread, Doctors and Teargas It’s been seven weeks since protests began in Sudan. Many have died, over a thousand have been detained, and what started with a rise in the price of bread has spiralled into demands that President Omar al-Bashir step down. BBC Arabic’s Omar El-Tayeb Ahmed is Sudanese, and has been following the news. | 08:51 |
| 0208 | 08.02 | Life in an Afghan Tea-house - A trip to the chaikhana There used to be a chaikhana or tea-house on the corner of every Afghan street. In cities today, they're being displaced by coffee shops. But BBC Pashto's Auliya Atrafi has a soft spot for the traditional chaikhana, where people can chat and watch the world go by. | 08:47 |
| 0215 | 15.02 | A Kashmir story: why I became a journalist Aamir Peerzada is a journalist for BBC Indian languages. He grew up in Indian-administered Kashmir, during insurgency of the 1990s, and the violence reached his family. It was this tragic event which compelled him to become a journalist. | 16:13 |
| 0222 | 22.02 | The Favourite The British film The Favourite bagged ten nominations for this year's Oscars. We ask Ahmed Zaki of BBC Arabic, Ibrat Safo of BBC Uzbek and Yana Litvinova of BBC Russian what interest a drama about an 18th century queen holds for their audiences. | 09:39 |
| 0301 | 01.03 | What now for Syria's Kurds? The so-called Rojava revolution brought radical social change in the Kurdish regions of northern Syria: equality and representation regardless of religion, ethnicity or gender. It was their armies which battled so-called Islamic State. But with IS largely defeated, US forces poised to pull out of Syria, and Turkey opposed to this political entity, Roj Ranjbar of BBC Monitoring and Jiyar Gol of BBC Persian, Kurds from Iraq and Iran, discuss the future of the Rojava revolution. | 10:55 |
| 0308 | 08.03 | Killed for his faith: searching for a martyred ancestor Not everyone has a saint in the family, but BBC Arabic’s Eli Melki soon might. His ancestor Leonard Melki was a Capuchin monk in Turkey, and among the hundreds of thousands killed as the onset of the First World War fanned the flames of religious persecution in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Eli retraced his journey. | 11:43 |
| 0315 | 15.03 | Killed for seeking justice BBC Urdu’s Humaira Kanwal has reported on the Kohistan video case for many years, and was helped by the man pursing justice, Afzal Kohistani. In 2012 a video emerged showing five young women from Kohistan singing and clapping with two young men, behaviour forbidden in this region. The men were Afzal's brothers and although they escaped, three other brothers were killed in the name of honour. Afzal believed the women were also killed, and took the case to Pakistan’s Supreme Court. And now Afzal himself has been killed. Humaira remembers him. | 08:54 |
| 0322 | 22.03 | A tale of two Somalias BBC Somali journalist Qalib Barud reports on Somalia for a living. His family left in the early 1990s when civil war erupted, and he'd never visited Mogadishu, so when the opportunity came to spend three months reporting in the capital, he jumped at the chance. | 11:25 |
| 0329 | 29.03 | Helmand to Hull: An Afghan journey Auliya Atrafi arrived in the UK from Afghanistan in 2000 and was settled in the northern city of Hull, eventually moving into journalism and then joining BBC Afghan. He recently returned to Hull to assess the impact of the Brexit vote on the city. | 10:02 |
| 0405 | 05.04 | The women who joined IS Thousands of women and children associated with foreign IS fighters are now in limbo following the defeat of the ‘caliphate’. Tse Yin Lee and Matilda Welin are part of a BBC Monitoring team who have been researching why these women joined IS and what happens to them now. | 09:35 |
| 0412 | 12.04 | An Egyptian take on Algeria's protests Large scale protests in Algeria forced President Bouteflika to stand down last week. BBC Arabic's Marwa Nasser visited Algiers to meet the protesters demanding change, bringing back memories of her own country's 2011 protests in Tahrir Square. | 09:43 |
| 0419 | 19.04 | What’s on trend around the world? New fashions and passions are reported daily on the language services, so we’ve brought together some of our favourites: freediving in Colombia, Sufi fusion music in Pakistan, dreadlocks in Nigeria, and a new kind of tourism in South Korea. With Beatriz de la Pava of BBC Mundo, Julie Yoonnyung Lee of BBC Korean, Princess Abumere from BBC Lagos, and Farah Karim from BBC Africa, whose Global Beats programme this week discovers new music in her second home, Pakistan. | 22:47 |
| 0426 | 26.04 | Reporting Sri Lankan bomb attacks Ayeshea Perera is based in the BBC's Delhi office, but flew home to Sri Lanka immediately after Easter Sunday's bomb attacks. She shares her experiences of reporting from Colombo and Negombo, and her memories of civil war the bombings have triggered. | 14:37 |
| 0503 | 03.05 | Healing Iraq's mental wounds Namak Knoshnaw spent a year making the BBC Arabic documentary 'Iraq: A State of Mind’. It follows the stories of three people dealing with the psychological impact of decades of war, invasion, sectarian violence and occupation by the so-called Islamic State. Namak grew up in Iraq, and it's a story close to his heart. | 13:00 |
| 0510 | 10.05 | 'Time for the guns to be silent' BBC Africa’s Mohanad Hashim shares his impressions of a Sudan without President Omar al-Bashir, and the historic protests which toppled him from power. | 13:38 |
| 0517 | 17.05 | A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar Aa'rar Kissa, or Our Story, is a radio drama made specifically for the Rohingya refugees now living in Bangladesh, having fled their homes in Myanmar. The radio drama was created by the BBC Media Action's local director, Riad Arfin. | 11:56 |
| 0524 | 24.05 | Orangutan, elephants, and dams Indonesia's Leuser rainforest in Sumatra is a unique ecosystem where elephants, orangutan, tigers and rhinos still live together. But this biodiverse forest is now threatened by development, as BBC Indonesia's Mehulika Sitepu found out. | 11:10 |
| 0531 | 31.05 | What price scaling Everest? Mount Everest in Nepal draws hundreds of climbers every year to scale the world's highest peak. But the effort comes at a high price, both in lives lost, and the cost to the environment. BBC Nepali’s Surendra Phuyal reports on the campaign to clean up the rubbish left behind by the climbers on Nepal's holy mountain. | 09:28 |
| 0607 | 07.06 | Are we wrong to miss our children? - Yazidi mothers: an impossible choice In 2014, so-called Islamic State attacked the Yazidi religious group in northern Iraq, killing hundreds of men and capturing around 6,000 women and children. The women were used as sex slaves and although many are now free it’s emerged that the price of returning home is giving up the children fathered by their IS captors. BBC Persian journalist Nafiseh Kohnivard spent a year investigating the story for her documentary The Yazidis’ Secret Children. | 10:46 |
| 0614 | 14.06 | A love story between former enemies - Sri Lankan love across the divide BBC Sinhala's Suneth Perera's Crossing Divides piece celebrates an unusual love story between a former Tamil Tiger and a Sinhalese Civil Defence Force recruit. | 09:49 |
| 0621 | 21.06 | Fit to report - welcome to BBC Nairobi The programme is in Nairobi this week, meeting journalists from the six language services covering the region, from Rwanda to Eritrea. What’s in a name? A tour of Kenya and beyond through people’s names. David Wafula’s surname tells us he was born in the rainy season, Bashkas Jugsodaay’s name contains a World War II story, and Cyuzozo Samba is called ‘last born’, although he has two younger siblings! When the news gets personal… Hamida Aboubakar, Issa Abdul and Sharon Machira pick a news story that touches them personally. Hamida, a twin, tells us about this week's headline in Kenya, of twins separated and now reunited after 19 years. Big time camel owner Issa shares tips and pics of camels. And we debate Tanzania’s new wig tax, which has fired up women across the region, including Sharon. My Home Town: Nairobi Roncliffe Odit gives David Amanor a tour of his favourite places in Nairobi: Toi Market, Uhuru Park, and his favourite Swahili restaurant. Fit to report? Engage your core and smile! Every day at noon, BBC Nairobi gathers for the plank challenge, a minute and a half of pain and no laughing! David joins them. Meeting Nairobi's Horn of Africa teams Christine Yohannes, Hana Zeratsyon and Bekele Atoma discuss stories from Ethiopia and Eritrea, sharing insights into what unites and divides a region of so many languages and cultures. The great coffee debate Ethiopia is the country which gave coffee to the world. So what do the BBC Ethiopians make of Kenyan coffee? Ethiopian Kaleb Moges matches cup for cup with Kenyan Diana Njeru. Will either concede defeat? | 23:14 |
| 0628 | 28.06 | Why Pakistan is not polio free In Pakistan, attempts to eradicate polio stalled when the vaccination programme became tangled in international politics, religious decrees and social media scare stories. Vaccination workers have been attacked and even killed. BBC Urdu’s Shumaila Jaffery met vaccination workers, parents, and clerics for a BBC World Service series, "Vaccines: A Crisis of Trust". | 11:18 |
| 0705 | 05.07 | Where do ancient treasures belong? A small bust of Tutankhamun was sold in London this week for £4.7 million. The sale was challenged by the Egyptian government, which believes the sculpture was removed illegally from the country. Reda El Mawy of BBC Arabic studied archaeology in Egypt and has been gripped by the story. | 10:55 |
| 0712 | 12.07 | Joao Gilberto: Father of Bossa Nova The legendary Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto died this week. Famous internationally for The Girl from Ipanema, country at home he was known as one of the fathers of Bossa Nova. Brazilians Fernando Duarte and Luis Barrucho discuss his legacy and the reaction to his death. | 11:24 |
| 0719 | 19.07 | My ancestors, the slave traders When BBC Mundo's Jaime Gonzalez began to suspect that his merchant ancestors traded not only in goods but also in slaves, he set off on an investigation that took him to Spain and Chile. He made a documentary about what he found. | 11:45 |
| 0726 | 26.07 | Life at 124°C for Indian brick makers A report this month looked at the impact of working in a warmer planet. India got a particular mention, and BBC Hindi's Anant Prakash decided to see what this meant on the ground. He went to Uttar Pradesh to meet the brick makers enduring temperatures of up to 124°C. | 12:16 |
| 0802 | 02.08 | Ebola crisis: Fighting fear and despair It's a year since the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo began. More than 1,800 people have died, with the latest cases in Goma, a large city and important transport hub. It's an area BBC Africa's Gaius Kowene knows well. | 10:49 |
| 0809 | 09.08 | Who were the Blikkiesdorp Five? The BBC Africa film “Murder Town” explores South Africa's Cape Town, both a popular tourist destination, and one of the most divided and violent cities in the world. Journalist Vauldi Carelse went to the site of one brutal mass killing in the Blikkiesdorp neighbourhood to tell the stories of the people living and dying there. | 13:51 |
| 0816 | 16.08 | The Venice of Venezuela El Morro was conceived as the Venice of Venezuela, a place of canals and luxury yachts on the Caribbean Sea. But even here the economic and political crisis is evident, as BBC Mundo’s Guillermo Olmo discovered. | 11:32 |
| 0823 | 23.08 | A celebration of peace It's been a year since mediation began to end violent clashes in the Somali region of Ethiopia that pitted Oromo people against ethnic Somalis. Bashkas Jugsoda’ay of BBC Somali and Habtamu Tibebu of BBC Afaan Oromo have been to the regional capital Jijiga to speak to people affected by the fighting and witness a peace meeting between the two communities. | 10:53 |
| 0830 | 30.08 | Meeting Bobi Wine Rap star turned politician Bobi Wine recently announced that he was going to run for the Ugandan presidency in 2021. He is a source of controversy and admiration, and Catherine Byaruhanga of BBC Africa has been to meet him. | 13:04 |
| 0906 | 06.09 | Lessons for Hong Kong from Ukraine Last week, protesters in Hong Kong organised screenings of a Netflix documentary about Ukraine's Maidan Square protests called ‘Winter on Fire’. Jeff Li and Fan Wang of BBC Chinese met some protesters moved to see their own situation mirrored in past events in Ukraine. And for Diana Kuryshko of BBC Ukrainian, events in Hong Kong brought back memories of 2014. | 11:56 |
| 0913 | 13.09 | Idlib's “double tap” airstrike that never was BBC Arabic's investigations unit has pieced together the story of a so-called "double tap" airstrike on a market in Syria's Idlib province in which 39 people were killed. Nader Ibrahim explains how they put the story together, when it's too dangerous to go there, and Russian air force authorities deny it ever happened. | 13:37 |
| 0920 | 20.09 | Taken from their families: a colonial legacy During Belgian colonial rule in what is today Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 20,000 mixed race children were removed from their families. Prudent Nsengiyumva of BBC Great Lakes went to Belgium to meet some of those separated from their mothers as children. | 09:40 |
| 0927 | 27.09 | Protests, shamans and beatboxing: welcome to BBC Russian Russia is the biggest country on earth, and seldom out of the news. David Amanor visits BBC Russian in Moscow, where editor Andrei Goryanov heads a team of journalists who investigate, report and entertain Russian-speaking audiences. The Kremlin, St Basil’s Cathedral and shopping Oleg Boldyrev walks David from the tourist hotspots, to the silent protesters outside the Presidential Administration building. Russian rapping and ‘90s culture Seva Boiko and Anastasia Golubeva are colleagues and enjoy a healthy rivalry over culture. Seva is a child of the 1990s, and his podcast - 8 Stories from the ‘90s - taps into the current interest in the era. Anastasia has been following today’s rappers, and tries her hand at a bit of beatboxing. Inside the investigations unit Andrei Zakharov and Svetlana Reiter share their experiences of investigating online crime, from murders commissioned on the dark web, to the trade in personal data. My Home Town Moscow Nataliya Zotova shares a local view of Moscow, including the proletariat palaces of the Metro, the rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Gorky Park, and Lubyanka Square. Reporting Russia Journalists Oleg Boldyrev, Nina Nazarova and Elizaveta Vereykina share stories from far flung locations, including the Siberian shaman walking to Moscow, the IS brides from the Caucasus, and spy dramas on the Russia-Norway border. | 41:30 |
| 1004 | 04.10 | Gandhi in London As India marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, the BBC’s Gaggan Saberwhal takes us to the places where he lived and stayed on two visits to London, first as a law student and later as a political leader. | 09:41 |
| 1011 | 11.10 | Exposing Iraq’s pleasure marriage clerics BBC Arabic’s Nawal Al-Maghafi's report Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq's Secret Sex Trade exposes some clerics at two of Iraq’s holiest sites sexually exploiting children and young women, using a controversial religious practice called 'pleasure marriage'. | 11:28 |
| 1018 | 18.10 | Kenya's camel-back clinic Healthcare can be hard to come by for Kenya's Maasai, Samburu and Turkana nomadic peoples. So camels have been enlisted to bring a mobile clinic to them. BBC Africa’s Christine Njeri joined them. | 10:29 |
| 1025 | 25.10 | A tale of two protests: Chile and Lebanon The governments of Chile and Lebanon are this week reeling under the impact of massive protests. Both were triggered by apparently small events, but tapped into long-standing public grievances. Fernanda Paul of BBC Mundo and Carine Torbey of BBC Arabic compare events in their countries. | 15:14 |
| 1101 | 01.11 | Bought and sold like used cars BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation, Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market, exposes the mainstream app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery by trading domestic staff, including a 16-year-old girl from Guinea in West Africa. | 14:24 |
| 1108 | 08.11 | The peace corridor of Kartarpur The Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan is one of Sikhism's holiest sites, but since Partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Sikhs have been unable to visit. This weekend an historic arrangement will allow Indian Sikh pilgrims to visit the Shrine visa-free. Umer Draz Nangiana of BBC Urdu has been covering the story. | 10:55 |
| 1115 | 15.11 | Inside the Taliban prison Block Six of Afghanistan’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison is where the Taliban prisoners are held. BBC Afghan’s Zuhal Ahad was part of the team given rare access to their cells to see how they live, and discover what views they now hold. | 10:09 |
| 1122 | 22.11 | Costa Rica’s centenarians The Nicoya peninsula is a “blue zone”, where people live much longer than average. The BBC's Rafael Rojas joined an inspiring group of people aged 100 plus to find out the secrets of their longevity. | 10:15 |
| 1129 | 29.11 | Behind the tragic headlines The first funerals of the victims of human trafficking discovered in Grays, Essex, were conducted in Vietnam this week. 39 people died in the back of a lorry trailer. The victims were initially thought to be Chinese, but BBC Vietnamese journalists Giang Nguyen and Khue Luu were among the team who confirmed they were Vietnamese, and pieced together their stories. | 11:43 |
| 1206 | 06.12 | Afghan pine nuts Afghanistan’s pine nuts are in demand, with China signing a five-year deal worth US$2.2 billion. BBC Afghan editor Shoaib Sharifi tells us about the importance of this tiny but valuable nut. | 08:58 |
| 1213 | 13.12 | Rapping Kashmir The My Indian Life podcast looks at India through young people’s eyes. It recently told the story of Ahmer Javed, a rapper from Indian-administered Kashmir. Ishleen Kaur met him and other artists during August’s lockdown, and found a generation who feel very separate from the rest of India. | 11:43 |
| 1220 | 20.12 | Chernobyl: Lyudmila's story The 1986 nuclear reactor explosion was dramatised this year in the HBO/Sky series Chernobyl. It includes the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko, whose husband was one of the firefighters who tackled the blaze at the nuclear plant. The series has brought her back into public view, with many people critical of her behaviour at the time. Lyudmila tells her side of the story to Olga Malchevska for BBC Russian. Picture: Lyudmila Ignatenko and husband Credit: Lyudmila Ignatenko | 11:27 |
| 1227 | 27.12 | A refugee's story and a football shirt Namak Khoshnaw is a journalist and award winning film maker with BBC Arabic. His documentary ‘Iraq: A State of Mind’ charts the impact of decades of conflict on mental health, ‘Life on the Rubbish Dump’ is about the children who pick rubbish in the city of Erbil, and his fascinating 3D journey below the Nabi Yunus shrine near Mosul reveals an ancient Assyrian palace in underground tunnels. These films all took him back to Iraq, the country he left nearly two decades ago, following a dream to play football for Chelsea. It was a perilous journey. Image: Namak Khoshnaw Credit: BBC/Daniel Adamson | 17:27 |
