The Happy Pod: country star Jordan Davis wants more good news
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, the singer Jordan Davis tells us how the need for more positive and uplifting stories inspired his latest song, Good News Sold. Also: the school children surfing the web without internet access, and the birth of a rare, bright orange baby monkey.
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| 0:00.0 | Unfortunately, I think we all live in a world where the bad news sells. |
| 0:03.8 | It's not the good stuff that's being heard. |
| 0:05.6 | It's almost like my wish. |
| 0:07.0 | My hope that going forward, we start focusing on the positive and not so much on the bad. |
| 0:12.4 | A call to action for more good news stories from this American |
| 0:16.2 | country music star I'm Jordan Davis and this is the happy pod from the BBC World Service. Service. Hello, I'm Harry Bly. |
| 0:27.2 | This week we also hear from the team bringing online education offline to children in |
| 0:32.3 | Senegal. |
| 0:33.0 | In the box is a small portable server. |
| 0:36.0 | Anyone nearby can connect their tablet computer, phone or laptop |
| 0:40.0 | and start browsing. |
| 0:42.0 | The Bright Orange Baby Monkey and start browsing. The bright orange baby monkey. It's quite odd because they almost |
| 0:46.7 | look like they don't belong. Born at a zoo here in the UK and speaking of babies |
| 0:52.2 | is there a doctor on board you know it's a difficult |
| 0:55.2 | enough childbirth in general but 30,000 feet in the air you know I can only imagine how |
| 1:00.3 | stressful this must have been for her we meet the man who helped ensure a mother and baby |
| 1:05.0 | came back down to earth safely. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm Dr. Hassan Khan, and I help deliver a baby on a plane. |
| 1:10.6 | You're listening to the happy pod. Let's begin with some music, country music. |
| 1:17.0 | This is good news sold, and it's all about how much better we'd all feel if there was less |
| 1:26.9 | doom and gloom in the news. |
| 1:28.9 | You can see why we like it. |
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