The Fifth Floor: My Ramadan

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It’s a period of prayer, celebrations and community gatherings and Muslims worldwide observe it by fasting from dawn to sunset. As this year’s Ramadan draws to a close, Faranak Amidi is joined by three BBC World Service colleagues who share their personal experiences and the stories that made headlines in their countries during this year’s celebrations.

Asif Farooqi, Aalia Farzan and Deena Easa have been looking at how conflict, natural disasters and the cost-of-living crisis are impacting people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Gaza. Plus... Ramadan cricket, why do people want to get married during the Holy Month, and the TV series that everyone’s talking about.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson

(Image: Presenter 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	The fifth floor.
0:10.0	The fifth floor in the news the fifth floor in us.
0:14.0	We see me call.
0:15.0	To me have this fifth floor
0:17.0	fornak and me do so but.
0:21.0	This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC
0:26.3	journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Farnek Annie Dee. like Amiti. So we are starting this episode on the fifth floor of Broadcasting House, the
0:45.9	headquarters of the BBC in central London. We are here because it's home to
0:51.5	the international services of the BBC that broadcasts in different languages
0:56.6	and they broadcast to their audiences inside their countries and around the world.
1:01.6	And that's why the program is called The Fifth Floor.
1:05.8	And I'm surrounded by many talented journalists here,
1:09.2	many of whom are regulars on the fifth floor.
1:13.0	Let's just go walk around and see what is happening on the fifth floor.
1:18.0	Hello, Guy.
1:20.0	So you're at the BBC Urdu service, yes?
1:23.0	Any interesting story that you are working on that you're discussing that maybe you could share with us?
1:29.0	Basically, we are up to so many things.
1:31.0	Of course you are.
1:32.0	So many stories. But right now we are doing on a Pakistani dish called
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