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🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The street musician whose dream of seeing Oasis came true, thanks to a stranger. He says people should never give up. Also: an amazing survival story; hope for better cancer treatment; and a very slow world championship.
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0:00.0 | This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
0:09.0 | I'm Alex Ritson and in this edition. |
0:12.2 | Can you believe it, a piece of cardboard I found in a roadside dumpster took me to the front row, |
0:21.6 | and I watched Oasis live right in front of me. |
0:25.7 | The man who played music in the street |
0:27.9 | until he fulfilled his dream of seeing his favourite band live. |
0:32.9 | The German backpacker rescued after two weeks lost in Western Australia's outback. |
0:38.4 | Just an amazing guilt, desperation and true grit, I think, just got her through in the end. |
0:44.0 | Plus a new test that could ensure tens of thousands of people with breast cancer get better |
0:49.2 | treatment. And... |
0:50.6 | If I can do it, you can do it too. You don't have to do what you're told to do. Yeah, it can be done |
0:55.7 | even with difficult circumstances. After a life-changing crash, one man finally achieves his goal |
1:02.0 | of becoming a doctor. We start with a busker or street musician from Japan who came to Northern England |
1:14.1 | with a dream of seeing his favourite band live. |
1:36.0 | That's Mire Eitao playing Don't Look Back in Anger in the Middle of Manchester, |
1:38.9 | the home city of his favourite band Oasis. |
1:44.0 | Tickets for their highly anticipated tour went on sale last year. When he didn't get one, Mere |
1:46.0 | travelled from his home in Yokohama to busk, hoping to raise enough for a ticket. After |
1:52.8 | weeks of performing to the public, his dream came true when he met a kind stranger. |
1:59.2 | Merey spoke to the Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs |
2:02.0 | days after he finally saw his beloved Oasis. |
2:06.1 | In Japan, Oasis is massive. |
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