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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Kylie thanks fans who got her through cancer

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Pop superstar Kylie Minogue tells us how the love and support of fans around the world helped her breast cancer recovery. Also: the penguin post office; making plastic from onion peel; and learning happiness from dogs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

0:04.0

I'm Alex Ritzen and in this edition. I got letters and letters and letters and

0:19.0

drawings and messages and I kept them all and they really really made such a difference.

0:26.0

I just felt like there was just a trail of love and support and it was just beautiful.

0:45.2

Pop Superstar, Kylie Minogue on how love and support from around the world helped her through breast cancer. We hear what it takes to get a job where there are more penguins than people. Could our four-legged friends help us learn to be happier?

0:52.3

I think dogs understand that the things that make life

0:54.5

worth living are those things that we do for their own sake. All the things that

0:58.9

they would do just because they want to. And reunited.

1:03.7

I could see my parents, Bill's parents, Bill's grandmother and grandfather.

1:08.4

It was just unbelievable.

1:10.4

The couple whose wedding video lost nearly 60 years ago has been found half a world away. If you'll know just how devastating that can be

1:25.0

diagnosed with cancer you'll know just how devastating that can be and

1:29.7

even if you get the all clear it can be hard to move on with life.

1:33.6

Getting through takes a lot of love and support, whoever you are.

1:38.2

Nearly 20 years ago, the global pop superstar Kylie Manogue joined the many millions around the world facing the disease,

1:45.4

news that sparked a huge rise in the numbers of women getting checked and treated early enough

1:50.8

to survive breast cancer. Now with that latest milestone

1:55.0

approaching she's been talking to our entertainment correspondent Mark

1:58.7

Savage. One of the most tangible things I guess even, even outside of music and acting, when you talked

2:04.4

about your cancer diagnosis, the number of women who went for screenings shot up.

2:10.0

And that's a real difference that you've made to people's lives just by talking about it publicly.

2:15.0

That must have been, I guess, quite moving for you.

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