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Mike Phillips never finished high school in the 1960s.

With the help of his girlfriend Mary Jane, he's just attended his graduation at the age of 77.

That was probably the best surprise that I ever got in my life. But on the way

there he says now I don't want any surprises. Make sure there are no surprises and

I thought oh brother boy. Am I in trouble?

Hello. I'm Harry Bly and in this edition of The Happy Pod, meet Nicola from England.

She makes pottery for people with disabilities.

It just seems to have been that people don't want a medical aid.

They just want to sit and continue to enjoy drinking their cup at.

Her work went viral online and now she's helping hundreds.

Aditi Gupta wrote a comic book in 2014 to teach girls about periods.

Now, menstruopedia is used all over the world.

And we hear the impressive clean energy record set by Portugal.

All that and more to come on the happy pod.

And I'm on the chat with the happy pot.

Pod, POD. You got me. Hello, this is Mike Phillips and I'm listening to the happy pod.

That's lovely. And I'm from Dickuson, Texas. That's right,

right, this is the happy pot from the BBC World Service.

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