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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Saved from skin cancer

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, thanks for the eagle eyed doctor in Australia who spotted a serious medical problem on a TV interview and issued a very timely warning. Praise in Colombia for the big sister who kept her little siblings alive in the jungle after their plane crashed. And the Mongolian women re-invigorating an old art-form for the twenty-first century. Presented by Jackie Leonard. Music produced by Iona Hampson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Professor Dan Angus and you're listening to the HappyPod.

0:04.2

Hi, I'm Dr Graham Six and you're listening to The HappyPod.

0:08.4

A professor and a doctor no less, you heard them.

0:11.3

Welcome to The HappyPod from the BBC World Service.

0:19.1

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition will be in Australia, Germany, Canada and Colombia

0:25.0

where a 13-year-old girl kept her three younger siblings safe for 40 days in the rainforest.

0:31.0

Leslie Sinugara Duda was the one who kept her younger siblings alive.

0:38.4

It was a miracle.

0:39.7

Also in this podcast Natasha has full control.

0:42.9

She can alter the sales and the direction of the boat just by a sip and a puff.

0:49.0

The girl with cerebral palsy who sailed the Atlantic using her breath

0:53.9

and your favourite sounds, the ripping of Velcro,

0:57.1

Screech of Wheels on the floor, the oof, so when people get a nice hit,

1:00.5

piercing whistles from the officials, it makes my heart warm and pumps me up in a multitude of ways.

1:11.2

We begin with a story about observation, investigation and the upside of having a big internet presence.

1:18.2

It all began when Dr Graham Six, a skin cancer expert,

1:22.0

you might guess where this is heading, was watching the ABC evening news at home in Adelaide in Australia.

1:27.7

Professor Daniel Angus from Queensland University of Technology was on,

1:32.0

and as interesting as his interview was, Dr Six was distracted by the professor's appearance.

1:38.8

I was most interested in the brown spot on Daniel's right cheek,

1:43.0

reasonably large, about a centimeter in diameter,

1:45.9

and I thought that looked a bit strange and I was very suspicious that it might be a melanoma.

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