The Happy Pod: From pollution to paradise
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The volunteers restoring the beautiful beaches of Bali and beyond by clearing plastic pollution from Indonesia's rivers, and upcycling it into chairs. The profits are used to fund more river clean ups. The deaf toddler who has near normal hearing after groundbreaking gene therapy. Why are hundreds of sea lions gathering at Pier 39 in San Francisco? After seagull boy, we bring you lion girl - the five year old whose amazing lion roar has been viewed millions of times. We chat to two old friends who reconnected -- and then studied why old friends find it hard to reconnect. And we meet the football fan who moved to a new country to support his team in the English Premier League.
Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Stenbenchigib, co-founder of Sun I watch from Indonesia |
| 0:11.0 | and you're listening to the Happy Pod. Here how we give value to |
| 0:14.5 | River Trash. And I'm Jean-Jaleil also in this edition a groundbreaking gene |
| 0:19.8 | therapy treatment that means a death child can now hear. |
| 0:23.7 | They played us the sounds that she was turning to and they're quite mind-blown by how soft it was, |
| 0:28.6 | how quiet it was. |
| 0:29.6 | There sounds that I think in day-to-day life you might not even notice yourself sort of thing. |
| 0:34.0 | And a welcomed invasion of San Francisco. |
| 0:38.0 | It is crazy. I've never seen that many sea lions in one place. |
| 0:43.7 | It's just so cool to see them all here. They're so loud. |
| 0:48.0 | Hundreds of sea lions stopping by. Also in this podcast. Reconlections might remind you of kind of |
| 0:55.8 | old versions of yourself, old memories, wonderful times might open a whole wonderful series of |
| 1:01.6 | memories that you can kind of reflect upon. |
| 1:04.0 | The joy of reconnecting with old friends and after Seagal Boy, we bring you Lion Go. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm going expert, my son! |
| 1:15.0 | I'm a kid, thank you, thank you, |
| 1:20.0 | self-proclaimed lion expert Riley, who's five. |
| 1:25.0 | They thought they'd landed in paradise. |
| 1:30.0 | Three siblings moved from France to the individual. They thought they'd landed in paradise. |
| 1:32.6 | Three siblings moved from France to the Indonesian island of Bali as teenagers. |
| 1:37.6 | And it was idyllic except for one huge problem, |
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