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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Reindeer herder rescued from frozen wilderness

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, the remarkable rescue of a reindeer herder from Lapland's frozen wilderness. Also: how music is helping refugees heal from war in Uganda. And how a young sumo wrestler has earned a place in the history books

Transcript

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0:00.0

Malonnie, go to go in all go Olivia

0:03.0

fori, got the happy podcast their name.

0:06.0

That's Olivia. Her voice was in the film Moana,

0:09.0

and she is welcoming you to the happy pod

0:11.0

from the BBC World Service.

0:16.1

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 6th of April

0:20.1

a remarkable rescue from a frozen ravine in Finland.

0:24.0

This first thought was that, okay, it's not my time yet,

0:28.0

so I get a chance to play with my children.

0:30.0

How music is being used to help refugees heal from war?

0:34.0

Music is a medicine to this all and music is a universal language.

0:40.0

The woman who turned a mugging in New York into award-winning art.

0:43.8

Okay, great, so this terrible thing happened.

0:46.0

I'm still kind of traumatized by it.

0:48.0

But hey, look at this beautiful poem I've made.

0:50.3

And in Japan in a feat that hasn't been seen in over a hundred years.

0:57.0

And we begin in a remarkable rescue in the frozen wilderness of Northern Lapland.

1:09.6

It is extremely cold there at this time of year and so when a reindeer heard a went missing for two days after plunging into a ravine.

1:18.0

It could have ended very badly indeed.

1:20.0

But that is where the skills of the indigenous Sami people come in.

1:25.0

Our reporters, Anna and Harry, spoke to journalist and Finnish resident Ereka Benka

1:30.0

about the rescue and the remote area where it happened.

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