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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How a plea to fly a dog to the US ended in marriage. Adri Pendleton and Niklas Stöterau fell in love after he came to the rescue. Also: a son who's saved his dad's life, twice; and helping the homeless through tennis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Happy Port from the BBC World Service.

0:07.8

I'm Bernadette Keough, and in this edition,

0:10.8

I'm going to try to get through this without crying too much.

0:13.6

Please watch this whole video.

0:15.6

How a cry for help on social media led to love and marriage.

0:20.1

I got a man who's completely obsessed with me. I love it.

0:23.3

The wife was the same way.

0:24.7

Yes.

0:25.8

Also, saving your dad's life twice.

0:29.2

I want to live now, having my dad around.

0:31.2

Life is not promised, so I'm not going to worry about what could or couldn't happen.

0:35.5

I need to live for now.

0:37.1

Joshua gave stem cells

0:38.7

when he was 12 and has now donated a kidney. How learning to cook at home is saving people money

0:45.7

and improving their health and a chance encounter that led to a project using tennis to help

0:52.2

homeless people. He kind of said to me, hey, I've seen you on telly.

0:56.6

Would you play tennis with me?

0:58.2

He played like Ken Rosewell and Rod Laver.

1:01.0

He was amazing.

1:07.8

As couples around the world have just been celebrating Valentine's Day, we're starting with a truly modern transatlantic love story.

1:16.8

It has everything, an American with a broken heart, an elderly dog, a German pilot in shining armour, and a happily ever after in Switzerland.

1:27.1

And as Nikki Cardwell reports, it all began with a

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