The Happy Pod: Atomic bomb survivors campaigning for peace
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this Happy Pod special we're in Munich, Germany for One Young World. We speak to survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and their families as they turn their painful memories into a call for peace and the end of nuclear weapons. They're part of a group that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024. Also: The young Argentine harnessing Artifical Intelligence to spot wildfires; Zaynab Mohamed - the first Muslim woman elected to Minnesota's Senate at just 25; the 'TikTok Mayor' using social media to show life in charge of a tiny Spanish village; and the England football star, Georgia Stanway, who's using Euros success to change the game for the next generation of female players. Our weekly collection of inspiring, uplifting and happy news from around the world.
Presenter: Holly Gibbs. Music composed by Iona Hampson
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to the Happy Pot at One Young World. |
| 0:14.5 | Gut and Tag from Munich. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Holly Gibbs, and we are bringing you a slightly different happy pod this week. |
| 0:34.8 | We're here at One Young World and we have spoken to innovators, politicians and peacemakers whose ambition is to inspire change around the world. |
| 0:44.4 | Coming up. I also have hope because there is many people willing for peace and moving so well. |
| 0:48.2 | The Nagasaki survivors who are encouraging peace. |
| 0:50.8 | I wanted to take my life back. If we hold on to grudges, if we let things from our past dictate our future, |
| 0:57.5 | we'll never really fulfill our purpose. How a man who was shot and paralyzed by an officer |
| 1:03.3 | worked with the police and communities to bring positive change. Plus, we monitored 200 million |
| 1:10.1 | hectares across 19 countries and in the last three months |
| 1:14.4 | we have alerted more than 400 wildfires. How AI is being used to tackle wildfires. |
| 1:25.1 | One Young World brings together more than 2,000 young people from 190 countries. |
| 1:30.7 | Here, they swap ideas about how to change the world |
| 1:33.5 | and how to get the leaders of today to listen. |
| 1:37.4 | We start with a story that isn't happy in its origins, |
| 1:40.5 | but does bring with it a message of hope. |
| 1:47.1 | The only aim of nuclear weapons is extinction, and they are evil. |
| 1:52.3 | That's why they cannot coexist with humans. |
| 1:55.1 | We shouldn't use them at all, |
| 1:56.6 | and all the world has to raise their voices to abolish them. |
| 2:00.7 | That's Shigemitsu Tanaka. |
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