The Fifth Floor: My emergency kit list

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How do you prepare for the worst-case scenario? Juna Moon has been talking to young people in South Korea about how they perceive the threat of war in the region and how they’re planning for it. Growing up in Taiwan after the 1999 Jiji earthquake, Joy Chang has been trained on what to do in case another quake hit. So when the ground started to shake in early April, she knew exactly what to do. Plus Hernando Álvarez shares the life advice he received from Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, and the story behind a handwritten note listing the author's favourite books.

Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Alice Gioia

Gabriel García Márquez' list of essential classics:

1. The Bible 2. One Thousand and One Nights 2 (a) Plato and Aristotle 3. The Odyssey 3 (a) The Illustrious Philosophers. Diogenes Laertius 4. Sophocles: Oedipus 5. The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius) 6. Plutarch 7. The Divine Comedy (Inferno) 8. Horace (Poetry) 9. El Cid (Ballads) 10. Amadis of Gaul 11. Don Quixote 12. Poetry: Spanish Golden Age 13. Gargantua and Pantagruel 14. Paradise Lost - Milton 15. Chroniclers of the Indies

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:04.0	This is
0:05.0	You're
0:08.0	You're actually
0:09.0	the fifth floor.
0:10.0	The fifth floor de nieus fifth floor in Newseus.
0:14.0	We see me as well.
0:15.0	To me have this fifth floor
0:17.0	fornak and me this obad.
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 Amidi. Amity. Do you have a grab bag, an emergency kit ready to go? I don't, but after speaking to my world service colleagues to record this episode, I feel like
0:47.0	maybe I should get one. You'll see why in a minute. On this episode of the fifth floor,
0:52.4	we are going to talk about emergency kit lists, real and
0:56.7	metaphorical, lists of items or ideas that can make you feel safe and maybe even save your life.
1:04.0	We'll start with a story from Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
1:08.0	These are news headlines from the past few months
1:11.0	when tensions between North and South Korea intensified.
1:15.2	North Korea has fired a long-range ballistic missile.
1:19.3	It is the 12th year landing in the sea off Japan.
1:22.6	South Korea has partially suspended a military agreement with North Korea.
1:27.6	After Pyongyang successfully put its first spy satellite into space.
1:32.3	North Korea has described its latest weapons tests that took place on Thursday
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