The Fifth Floor: Can climate change stories be cool?

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A virtual tour of Brazil's giant ravines, the radio shows helping Maasai people to protect their land and a real life Squid Game in South Korea: how BBC journalists around the world are finding new and engaging ways to cover climate change stories. Featuring Carol Olona and Shin Suzuki, Caroline Mwende and Suhnwook Lee.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
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0:09.0	the fifth floor.
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0:21.0	This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.
0:29.0	I'm your host, Parenak Ami D. Amid. Imagine you are driving your car and all of a sudden the road in front of you disappears and you fall into the void.
0:46.0	He was getting home after party in the city and it was 2 a.m. in the morning so it was very dark and he fell into this very big gully.
1:02.3	The gully, my colleague Shin Suzuki is talking about is 80 meters or 260 feet and is
1:09.6	swallowing up an entire neighborhood in Brazil.
1:13.4	The person who fell into it
1:15.3	is a former policeman called Jose Silvera.
1:18.9	The story itself was pretty unbelievable.
1:22.3	I mean, he he survived that crash. It happened in this small
1:28.7	city in northeast Brazil called Burychkupu. So I knew that there was the gully erosion process behind this accident.
1:40.0	And Shin, these gullies, they're huge. I was reading and it seems like you can actually fit a 20 story building in one of these gullies. And that's the gulli that the police officer fell into.
1:54.0	Yeah he was inside his car falling from the 20 story building.
2:00.0	We don't know how he could survive this crash.
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