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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Protecting penguins in South America

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, the biologist who's dedicated his life to protecting penguins in South America. Also: the award-winning Frenchman they call the Michelangelo of tattooists. And Peanut, the world’s oldest chicken

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's like driving a car under an avalanche, but you're taunting the avalanche rather than trying to get away from it

0:08.3

Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service

0:13.0

Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:17.0

This week, man impersonates penguins.

0:20.0

This is the world much Atlantic penguins go.

0:22.0

They go, he, he,h, heh, hmm.

0:26.0

I'm Harry Blye.

0:30.0

Welcome to the Happy Pod.

0:33.0

Lots of birds this week, we speak to a woman who set up a clinic for hummingbirds in her Mexico City apartment and the world's oldest

0:46.4

chicken living in the US state of Michigan.

0:49.5

She's very inquisitive, quite sassy.

0:52.2

She has to have her blueberry yogurt in the morning.

0:54.0

But she stumbles a little when she walks sometimes, but so do I.

0:58.0

Elsewhere. Round and round the rugged rock, the ragged rascal Ran. Round and round the rugged rock the rascal ran.

1:04.0

Round and round the ragged rock the rascal ragged rang.

1:08.9

Can tongue twisters help determine if somebody's drunk.

1:13.0

And it's mean, it's not green, it's...

1:16.0

Quite large, quite glandula, and interestingly colored.

1:20.0

A new species of toad discovered in Kenya.

1:23.0

Hi, this is Sonia and you're listening to Happy Pot.

1:27.0

This is Katia in Mexico City.

1:29.0

You're listening to the Happy Pot.

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