This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Series.

I'm Alex Ritson and in this edition.

No, no food and order throughout the day.

It's just adrenaline and passion.

As the holy month of Ramadan draws to a close,

street football tournaments take over streets across Egypt.

We also hear how a routine sweep with a metal detector led to one of the UK's biggest

archaeological discoveries. It will inspire people, it will kind of generate interest,

it will generate enthusiasm and hopefully it will make people say, you know, I've always wanted to go on a dig, I'll go and do it now.

A family of beavers in the Czech Republic saved the government millions of dollars,

building a dam exactly where authorities planned.

And I'm Gary O'Donoghue.

Normally you hear me reporting from Washington.

This week I'm on the happy pod with my own story of perseverance.

Ramadan is a time of prayer and reflection for Muslims worldwide.

In Egypt, they also mark it using one of their nationwide passions, football.

Since the 1960s street tournaments have spread to nearly every town, involving everyone from children to old men.

Some professional footballers take breaks from the training schedules to take part in the communities that first taught them to love the sport,

often undeterred by heavy fines imposed by their clubs.

It's been a lifelong passion for 70-year-old El-Sayad Mohammed

who used to play with a ball made out of old socks.

He says the tradition has much evolved since the early tournaments.

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