This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Vanessa Heini and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 25th of May we meet Georgia the singing Greyhound.

Who found her voice and a love of opera after being rescued.

The man who nearly became the first black astronaut finally makes it into space six decades later.

Absolutely fantastic.

Absolutely.

Life-changing experience.

Everybody needs to do this.

Meanwhile, spaceships of the future, as imagined by children, fly over New York.

It's like a straw head with reindeer antlers.

It's a dinosaur with a trap.

The spaceship is like a dog and stairs have many bones.

Also in this podcast, we meet the man who took on multi-billion dollar mining companies

to protect an Indian forest and won.

When he first went to these forests he found them so beautiful that he was very

surprised and shocked to hear that such a beautiful forest will be destroyed

for coal mining and... and listener Julia, Julia, the goat whisper,

Julia, the goat whisper. Whispera. Our first story covers an animal that makes me very happy. Dogs. I have a beloved black Labrador called Olive who's known as the

favorite child in my family but this story is about a rather special greyhound

who sings. This is six-year-old Georgia and her take on Mozart-sari a Queen of the Night

along with her big human sister 8 year old Hannah on piano.

Georgia was a racing dog until a serious accident on the track three years ago.

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