The Happy Pod: Hurtling into History
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, we hear from Africa's first bobsleigh champion. Also: the Spanish football club doing its bit to make the beautiful game greener. And how foxes are providing therapy in the Florida Keys.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Global Story, with Smart Takes and Fresh Perspective, on one big news story, |
| 0:07.8 | every Monday to Friday from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | Search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC podcasts to find out more. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, it's my joy. |
| 0:20.0 | It's hash of a gech, I'm Joy. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, I'm Joy and you're listening to The Happy Pod. |
| 0:27.0 | This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 24th of February |
| 0:39.3 | hurtling into history Africa's first Bobslay champion breaking more records. |
| 0:45.0 | Not only am I breaking this barrier and making this history, but really just compete with the rest of the world. |
| 0:51.0 | That for me would be success. The Spanish Football Club doing its |
| 0:54.4 | bits to encourage players and fans to be more environmentally friendly. |
| 0:58.6 | Forever Green is the platform launched by Real Betus for inspiring society for fighting against climate change. |
| 1:08.8 | Also in this podcast, we definitely has only child syndrome. He is a local celebrity and he writes a column for our local newspaper. |
| 1:20.0 | A surprising therapist, celebrity and columnist in the Florida Keys and the viral social media post that wasn't quite what it seemed. |
| 1:29.0 | This was very unintentional. It was a late night post for me. It was all in good fun. It was all, as somebody coined recently, |
| 1:36.5 | Kidder Banta. Hurtling down narrow, |
| 1:44.3 | narrow, twisted, packed ice tracks in a gravity-powered sled |
| 1:48.6 | might not be everyone's first choice in sporting endeavor, |
| 1:51.8 | but then Nigeria's Simidele Adiagbo isn't everyone. |
| 1:56.3 | In 2018 she became the first Nigerian to compete at the Winter Olympics and became the first |
| 2:01.6 | black female Olympian in the sport |
| 2:03.7 | a skeleton. Now the Bobsley World Championships are underway in Winterburg in |
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