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🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We meet Jack Pepper, the composer who's written a song for King Charles. The piece celebrates the harmony between people and the natural world. Also: hope for Alzheimer's patients; and how tourism could help stray dogs.
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0:18.9 | Hello there, it's Jack Pepper here, |
0:20.6 | and I'm going to be telling you about the song I wrote for King Charles III in this edition of the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
0:37.0 | I'm Bernadette Keough and in this edition |
0:40.0 | I knew I wanted a chorus that was uplifting and a kind of a rallying cry that says that yes we do have paled the actions that we can all take. |
0:53.5 | Inspiring action to help the planet, with a song written and performed especially for King |
0:58.8 | Charles. |
1:00.2 | You found optimism for controlling Alzheimer's disease, with dozens of potential treatments being trialled. |
1:06.2 | Thinking about the patients of today and the patients of tomorrow just really gives me hope and propels me on. |
1:14.1 | Why astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary have an unusual crewmate and... |
1:19.9 | They get to meet all kinds of people, all kinds of energy, learn to be calm and confident. |
1:26.8 | We're able to expose them to different situations where they can be |
1:29.2 | really well-rounded dogs. Using tourism to help stray dogs in Mexico. |
1:40.0 | We begin with a young musician given the daunting task of writing and performing a song that was fit for a king and could inspire people to take action to help the planet. |
1:51.2 | Jack Pepper, who's 26, is one of Britain's youngest commissioned composers. |
1:56.1 | He's been writing for orchestras since his early teens. |
1:59.7 | And it was a significant honour when he was |
2:01.7 | approached by the charity, the King's Foundation, and asked to compose a piece inspired by the |
2:07.0 | King's environmental philosophy. The result is Harmony, named after a book of the same name, |
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