The Happy Pod: Model Maker Outmatches Guinness World Records
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, the French model-maker celebrating a world record that he nearly missed out on due to a technicality. Also: a guide to the Lunar New Year celebrations. And can you tell the mood of a chicken by its cluck?
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| 0:00.0 | In 1969, a plan to show support for an anti-racism protest turned the lives of 14 promising |
| 0:07.0 | black student athletes upside down. |
| 0:09.8 | Amazing sport stories from the BBC World Service tells their story. |
| 0:14.0 | Search for Amazing Sports Stories, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, my name is Judis from Uganda. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to The Happy Port. This is the Happy welcome to the happy port. |
| 0:23.0 | This is the happy part from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Jackie Leonard and this edition is uploaded on Sunday the 11th of February. |
| 0:36.0 | Yes a day later than usual it isn't you and this is why. |
| 0:39.0 | She's in quilier, gong here fat joy. |
| 0:42.0 | We'll have our guide to the Lunar New Year festivities. The French model |
| 0:46.8 | maker celebrating a record-breaking achievement after nearly missing out on a |
| 0:50.8 | technicality. Richard's attempt truly is officially amazing. |
| 0:55.0 | We're also celebrating the wonder of music from this magnificent sound. |
| 1:00.0 | To the 20-24 Grammys. |
| 1:05.0 | She does feel like she could be the next Riana, |
| 1:10.0 | so that award almost felt like an anointing of a new star. |
| 1:14.0 | Also in this podcast, if Bird Song is your thing, we have the Uganda Women Birders Club. |
| 1:19.0 | We get the ladies to learn how to do bad watching and as such they can earn livelihood for their family. |
| 1:26.5 | And can you tell the sound of a happy chicken? We begin with an emotional roller coaster for French model maker Richer Plou. |
| 1:40.0 | He dedicated eight years of his life to creating a huge matchstick Eiffel Tower, |
| 1:46.0 | only to be initially denied the Guinness World Record for using the wrong kind of match. |
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