Faranak Amidi
speaker
1,355 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Aug
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Well also it it seems that the job inspires him, so why not?
Well, best of luck to Wang.
Thank you so much, Koyu.
Thank you.
Thanks Ko Yu from BBC's Hong Kong Bureau and to David Holt for reading Wang's poems.
That's all we've got time for today.
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Welcome to The Fifth Floor from the BBC World Service with me, Farinak Amideen.
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Our job here at The Fifth Floor is to bring you the best of those stories in English and also to get you closer to the extraordinary work our journalists do.
Coming up, how the growing and chewing of the stimulant qat is altering lives in Yemen.
But first...
When Chinese policeman Deng Guangping wrote an article commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, it kicked off a chain of events that led to him serving jail time and losing his job.
But it also sparked the beginning of a deep desire to escape China and to live more freely.
And Deng, now seen as a dissident by the authorities, began planning how he might escape China.
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