This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in this edition meet Italy's Tom Cruise and Blake lively.

Dubbing an actor means empathising with the character.

It's almost like she's become a family member.

I really feel like she's a friend of mine.

At the awards for actors who become the voice of some of the world's biggest film stars,

California's canine mayor.

The dogs love it.

They know, I can just tell them, hey, we're going to work.

And they know what that means, and they jump around and bark.

Diplomacy, Finnish style, in a sauna, and a woman who's helped reunite hundreds of families has finally found her own.

I found out that he was in my friend.

He has been in my friend list for three years.

We start with a film award ceremony that is all the glitz and glamour you might expect,

but without an on-screen

star in sight. While many of us are used to watching films in TV series from around the world

with subtitles, Italy has long favoured dubbing. The voiceover artists take on particular

Hollywood stars, becoming celebrities in their own right. And earlier this month, they were

recognised at the Voices in the

Shadows Festival in Genoa. Isabella Jule sent us this report from the red carpet.

The an anero d'Oro Roberto Chevalier. In a 13th century palace in northern Italy, a crowd applauds Roberto Chevalier.

A white-haired man in his 70s beams on stage as he's presented with an award.

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