The Happy Pod: Superhero dog saves family from fire

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.3 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, the superhero hero dog who saved a family from a fire finds a forever home, the international effort to rescue a man from a cave in Turkey. And the electronic bra that can spot signs of breast cancer.

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0:00.0	Unexpected Elements is the podcast exploring the science behind the headlines.
0:04.8	It's a real melting pot.
0:06.0	Yeah, the surface has lost happening.
0:08.0	Unexpected Elements from the BBC World Service.
0:11.2	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:15.6	This is Andrew Peach in London and for this week's HappyPod,
0:18.4	I'm joined by Sheila and Chris in Texas with news of a superhero dog.
0:23.2	Oh my goodness, Moose is the most amazing dog.
0:25.7	He literally saved our lives.
0:28.1	We woke up. Moose alerted Chris and Anya.
0:31.5	They quickly got up and let him out.
0:33.2	And it was at that time they realized that our neighbor's boat was on fire.
0:37.5	We were living on a boat in Virginia.
0:39.5	And our neighbor's fire had quickly spread to our boat after we got off the boat.
0:43.7	Moose truly is a hero. He saved our lives.
0:50.5	Also on the way, the bra that can spot breast cancer inspired by the arms of its designer.
0:56.0	I was sitting by her bedside while she was living her last 12 days.
1:02.0	With a piece of paper in my hand and I was drawing an electronic bra
1:06.1	and she loved the idea.
1:07.9	The Winnie the Pooh sketch that could be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
1:11.6	This wasn't in the library on the wall and they found this in a salad drawer
1:15.6	in a taped up frame in an old tea towel where it seems to have languished for
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