The Happy Pod: Marrying the man who saved my life
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Charlotte and Dave met as strangers in a moment of crisis, and went on to marry. Also, the son who reunited with his father after 19 years, and the friends that have been meeting up every week in the same spot since 1968 Presenter: Jannat Jalil. Music composed by Iona Hampson.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Janet Jalil and in this edition... |
| 0:09.6 | We sat and had a very good conversation about life |
| 0:12.8 | and it was enough to break the crisis that was in. |
| 0:16.5 | And I ended up marrying the man that I saved my life. |
| 0:21.1 | The couple who found each other in a dark moment. |
| 0:24.4 | Also, besides my father, I got a younger sister and a family. |
| 0:30.7 | I went to Darbar Sahib with my father and thanked God. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm very happy. |
| 0:35.9 | The emotional reunion of a father and son, |
| 0:39.1 | after not seeing each other for 19 years. |
| 0:42.7 | And? |
| 0:43.4 | We meet every week, and we know each other so well |
| 0:47.2 | that we can talk about any subject under the sun. |
| 0:50.7 | The group of friends that have met at the same spot |
| 0:53.7 | for more than five decades. |
| 1:00.6 | We start here in the UK with an act of kindness that gradually evolved into deep love. In 2019, |
| 1:09.2 | 33-year-old Charlotte from the north of England decided she'd had enough of her life |
| 1:13.3 | and decided to end it close to a railway station in West Yorkshire. But David Lay, who was |
| 1:19.4 | working as a train driver that day, found her in crisis and took the time to talk things through |
| 1:25.3 | with Charlotte until she felt comfortable enough to move on. |
| 1:29.9 | Years later, they got married. |
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