Faranak Amidi
speaker
1,355 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Aug
Faranak Amidi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 14 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 5.
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So the habit has been changing.
It's becoming more addictive, you mean, or destructive.
So we have a clip of some men in Yemen.
They are sitting in a qat salon.
And let's have a listen.
Why is it that it's so popular in Yemen?
And Dalia, Yemen is an Islamic country and drugs and alcohol are banned in Islam.
People don't consider Qat a drug, whereas by what they are saying and how they are describing it, it does sound like a drug.
That's all we've got time for today.
If you want to let us know what you think about the show or you have any questions for us, send an email to the fifth floor at bbc.co.uk.
We love hearing from you.
That is the fifth floor, all one word at bbc.co.uk.
From Havana, Cuba, JC got in touch to say, thanks for such an interesting program on life inside Iran.
It is very important to know about what is happening from the people in there and what they are passing through.
Nikhil John also wrote in about our Iran coverage to say, please consider covering more unheard stories from Iran.
Thank you for your dedication to bringing these important stories to the global audience.
And thank you, John, for writing to us.
And thanks to David Sindahl for writing in with this, for my brilliant colleague Irena Talenyuk, listening to her mellifluous and serene voice precisely pronouncing impossible foreign names and places leaves me in awe.
I totally agree with you, David.
It leaves me in awe too.
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