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05/06/2020 GMT

Lockdown in London’s Arabic community

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Doctors, cooks, bus-drivers and pianists: stories from the corona virus lockdown

The first NHS doctor to die, the restaurateur delivering meals, the pianist playing to empty concert halls: stories from London’s Arabic speaking community during lockdown.

BBC Arabic tells the stories doctors, restaurateurs, bus-drivers, volunteers, and pianists from London’s Arabic speaking community as they lived through two months of the corona virus lockdown. Producer Emir Nader, and film-maker Namak Khoshnaw, take us behind the scenes of ‘London Under Lockdown’.  

Animal noises around the world
Does your tiger roar, or say halloom?  Do your ducks quack quack or quing guing?  And how about cockadoodledoo?  Another chance to hear animal noises around the world.

George Floyd protests: the view from China
The recent demonstrations in America following the death of George Floyd have been watched by the whole world. But China is watching with particular interest, and using them to its own advantage. Zhaoyin Feng of BBC Chinese is based in Washington and shares her insights. 

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A walk in the Russian woods
Since the Russian President Vladimir Putin declared April a non-working month BBC Russian's Oleg Boldyrev has been getting to know the forests near his country home, a place of fallen trees, fungi and beaver dams.

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