The Happy Pod: Inspiring my daughter to donate a kidney

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When listener Sophia decided to donate a kidney to a stranger through a domino transplant scheme, her teenage daughter Katie objected. But years later, Katie decided to do the same - inspired by the chain of goodness her mother started, and the joy of meeting organ recipients at the transplant games. Also: Big Ocean - the first K-pop band whose members all have hearing impairments. As the Paris Olympics approach, we look back at the amazing story of two athletes who chose to share gold in Tokyo. Wild horses return to Kazakhstan for the first time in over two hundred years, thanks to a zoo breeding programme. The innovative system helping grow crops in arid regions with less water. And the children who got to perform at London's famous Royal Opera House.

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0:00.0	This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
0:04.3	I'm Valerie Sanderson and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 13th of July how one listener's decision to
0:15.3	donate a kidney to a stranger inspired her daughter to do the same.
0:20.2	I just remember thinking I can do this this gives gives meaning to life, you know, like I'm helping, I'm contributing.
0:27.3	No matter which way you do it, it's like this chain of goodness that like spread out into the world.
0:33.0	The K-pop band Breaking Barriers.
0:37.0	The words from a fan that I remember the most were,
0:43.0	Thank you for coming into the world.
0:45.0	All three members have hearing impairments.
0:48.0	Plus...
0:50.0	It is truly the last wild horse on the planet.
0:54.4	If all goes well, we could welcome the first baby
0:57.6	Seevowski horses born in the Kazakh step
1:00.0	after hundreds of years.
1:01.8	The Zoo Breeding project returning a once endangered
1:05.2	species to the wild. Also in this podcast, an innovative way of growing crops in arid
1:11.6	soil using less water.
1:14.0	And as the Paris Olympics approach,
1:16.2	we hear the amazing story of two athletes
1:19.0	who decided to share gold in Tokyo.
1:22.2	We are sports, man. We want to win, we don't care.
1:25.0	But when you are in that moment with somebody that you love,
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