This is Andrew Peach with the happy part, talking to the people at the heart of the world's positive news stories.

And sharing the sounds our listeners love to hear, like Matthias, in Sweden.

I've been listening for a while to the podcast, but I started to think like,

what does make me happy? And then I realised, and yes, this is the sound that does it.

It is a surprising choice from Matthias. Stay with us to find out.

Also this week we'll hear from St Peter's Birg, Shenzhen, Bangalore and Seattle.

We'll hear how Alex from New Zealand tracked down his birth father.

I just remember that exact moment, getting out of the taxi and seeing him over by the building

waving to me, and seeing somebody that looks a lot like you is a very strange thing for me,

because I've never met anybody like that before.

Why Bobby in the US became a living organ donor?

I had something that someone else could use to help improve his or her life.

I didn't have anyone in mind. I was just going to donate to a stranger.

And who let the dogs in to a Greek museum?

The dogs couldn't care less about the art. The dogs are actually very happy to be with their owners.

Those stories on the way in the happy part.

Now I was on the BBC World Service when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan

in August 2021. One of the worries people had on that dramatic Sunday was whether girls would

be banned from school again. We were told the Taliban had changed since the 1990s,

but within weeks a temporary ban was introduced and stands to this day.

A few days ago the BBC launched a new education program called DARS for 11 to 16-year-old children

in Afghanistan. The reaction has been overwhelming.

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