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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Monkey rescue mission

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, 100,000 Sri Lankan monkeys saved from export to China. Also: an Australian man born in a taxi seeks the driver, and the 16-year-old fulfilling a dream by playing Glastonbury.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I am William in Kenya and you're listening to the Happy Point.

0:05.0

I'm Eli. Me and my band has played a last-and-reay. You all listen to the Happy Point.

0:10.0

Hi, my name's Isis and this is the Happy Point.

0:14.0

It's certain years. This is the Happy Point from the BBC World Service.

0:21.0

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition, uploaded on Saturday, July 1,

0:26.0

the successful campaign to stop 100,000 wild monkeys being captured and exported from Sri Lanka to China.

0:33.0

The campaign was brilliant. It was fast. It was efficient. It was global.

0:38.0

It was a straight team of conservationists from around the world.

0:42.0

We'll be in Australia.

0:44.0

And a motorcycle policeman ended up pulling him over saying,

0:47.0

what are you doing speeding, going through red lights and they said to the police,

0:50.0

and he said, well, I started with two passengers and now I've got three. What do you want me to do?

0:54.0

That's Isis, born in a taxi and looking for the taxi driver and the young author

0:58.0

who wants to inspire her readers.

1:01.0

Live in the spirit of the power of your name.

1:04.0

I want people who read this book to feel like their name is special.

1:09.0

Also in this podcast, the largest school meals program in Africa.

1:13.0

For me, being able to go home and sleep knowing these 140,000 kids

1:19.0

that are able to be impacted positively,

1:22.0

it just gives me so much excitement and full feeling.

1:31.0

Now our editor insists on quite a high threshold for animal stories to get into the happy pod.

1:36.0

So this one is a proper news story.

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