This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and in this edition,

Even if things seem almost impossible, we can do it.

We can do anything we want.

If it's something that important to you, just go.

Don't stop until you get somewhere you want to be. The man trying to get his music career back after a life-changing stroke. You can be

beautiful and wear lipstick. I wear lipstick when I play rugby because I just feel like I don't have

to sacrifice one or the other. Like I can be a beast in the field but also feel beautiful and wear lipstick.

The young female athlete trying to inspire the next generation to follow in her footsteps.

Plus, we find out why dozens of people have been queuing outside a funeral home in China.

And...

I think when I went to bed, because I can remember I was up at

half-past two

talking, yakting away

so it'd be getting on for

3 o'clock before I went to bed

meet the woman raving on her

105th birthday.

We start with one man's remarkable journey back to doing what he loves.

Tony Remain is a musician from Inverness in Scotland.

At the age of 49, he suffered a stroke which left him unable to speak or walk.

Two and a half years into his recovery, Tony has resumed his music career by teaching himself

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