The Happy Pod: Nurse revives 'drunk' raccoon
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A nurse in the US state of Kentucky has gone viral after she saved a baby raccoon who became 'drunk' on fermented fruit. The cub had passed out after eating peaches, thrown away by a distillery.
Also: we hear from Bárbara Hernández, a cold water swimmer from Chile, known as the Ice Mermaid. She's front crawled her way to a Guinness World Record, completing the farthest ice swim ever by a woman. Plus, the man recreating a childhood photo, the 81-year-old woman who planted 4,000 trees; and Carlos Acosta on his latest milestone. Our weekly collection of inspiring, uplifting and happy news from around the world.
Presenter: Paul Moss. Music composed by Iona Hampson
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Paul Moss, and in this edition... |
| 0:15.7 | I went over there, and I was like, we have to get them out. |
| 0:19.2 | And I mean, because I guess that was just like the motherly instinct in me. |
| 0:22.9 | Like, I seen that mama and she was trying so hard to get her babies back. |
| 0:27.1 | The raccoon brought back to life by a nurse after one too many peaches. |
| 0:32.0 | Embrace the fear. |
| 0:33.2 | Embrace the pain and go through this. |
| 0:36.9 | I love that. If you're going through a hard time, keep going. |
| 0:40.3 | Keep going. |
| 0:41.2 | Life lessons from the woman dubbed the Ice Mermaid. |
| 0:44.5 | I felt connected to my past, but also cut off from it. |
| 0:48.6 | You know, the stone is the same, but I'm not the same person as I was then. |
| 0:52.9 | The man who wanted to recreate a picture from his childhood |
| 0:56.3 | almost 40 years later. |
| 0:58.8 | We meet 81-year-old Janet, who's grown more than 4,000 trees in her garden, |
| 1:03.9 | and... |
| 1:04.7 | What are the animals that I'm seeing? |
| 1:07.5 | Before you, one group shows a hound, overpoweringing a stag while the other depicts a tiger attacking a bear |
| 1:16.0 | the talking statues in France teaching history we start in the united states where a nurse in the state of Kentucky has won international fame |
| 1:30.7 | after she was filmed resuscitating an unconscious baby raccoon. |
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