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Hi, I'm Michael, I'm from New Zealand and this is a happy pod.

Hi, I'm Emma in Los Videos and this is the happy pod.

Hi, this is Michael.

Hi, this is Theresa.

We're in Hong Kong.

And this is the happy pod.

This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Lennard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 7th of October celebrating Simone,

the extraordinary comeback of US gymnast Simone Biles, athlete, mental health campaigner and champion.

Tackling one of the world's deadliest diseases, an affordable malaria vaccine gets WHO approval.

It's an enormous relief.

We've had time to think about it.

Yeah, no look, it was worth pursuing.

It was technically very difficult to take a while to eradicate malaria, so we're going to need this vaccine for a while.

Some advice for would-be scientists from a Nobel Prize winner?

I had so much fun in the laboratory performing the experiments and improving things and to have to emphasize them that it is fun.

It is a lot of work, but it is fun.

A man inspired by a question from his grandchildren.

They asked me, do you mean it's a story to pop pop?

And I couldn't.

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