The Happy Pod: My college designs on display at the Met
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We meet a teacher whose college fashion designs have gone on display at the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nadia Pinkney says she was shocked when the curator said they wanted to display her collection, which was inspired by a family history of Alzheimer's disease. She describes seeing the exhibition as an out-of-body experience and hopes it will encourage more people to talk about difficult topics like dementia.
Also: the passengers catching a bus to nowhere in Switzerland. The project is designed to encourage people to slow down and talk to new people face to face.
The mother who's found comfort from being able to hold her late daughter's hand again, after it was donated for a rare transplant.
The Polish influencer who's raised millions of dollars for a cancer charity by hosting a livestream for nine days, non-stop.
The grandmother fighting to preserve Chile's wetlands for the next generation.
Plus the Canadian truck driver who rescued a moose called Rebel; and why musicians in southern England are holding improvised concerts with nightingales.
Our weekly collection of inspiring, uplifting and happy news from around the world.
(Photo: Nadia Pinkney with her designs on show at the Met in New York. Credit: Nadia Pinkney)
Presenter: Holly Gibbs. Music composed by Iona Hampson
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Holly Gibbs and in this edition, the teacher whose university designs ended up on display at the Met. It was almost like |
| 0:23.1 | an outer body experience, just being in amongst all these amazing artists and designers thinking, |
| 0:29.3 | well, all the people that have already walked past this through the Met Gala, it was just |
| 0:33.8 | amazing. Also on this podcast, why people in Switzerland are catching a bus to nowhere. |
| 0:39.6 | They sing, they laugh, they speak. |
| 0:42.7 | It is a try to bring more humanity back into the daily life. |
| 0:48.2 | A woman who's able to hold her late daughter's hand again. |
| 0:51.8 | It's absolutely one billion percent George's hand. Yeah. No doubt whatsoever. It's absolutely 1 billion percent, Georgie's hand. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.4 | No doubt whatsoever is amazing, yeah. |
| 0:58.3 | I don't know there's a little piece of us still there. |
| 1:00.6 | The nine-day live stream that's raised millions of dollars for a cancer charity. |
| 1:05.2 | And... |
| 1:05.8 | That sign over there, my granddaughter painted it. |
| 1:09.7 | It says, I love the wetlands. I want my granddaughter to be able to say, my granddaughter painted it. It says, I love the wetlands. |
| 1:11.8 | I want my granddaughter to be able to say, my grandmother stood up for this. |
| 1:15.7 | She fought to leave us a better world. |
| 1:18.3 | The fight to save Chile's wetlands for the next generation. |
| 1:24.8 | We start with a story about how one teacher's designs ended up on display at one of America's most prestigious museums. |
| 1:33.0 | Nadia Pinckney, an art and fashion teacher from Scotland, created a line of clothes which represented Alzheimer's disease. |
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