This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright and in this edition...

I was called as a cucumber sitting between his knees in the face of a plane, but it's a bit different when you come out the plane.

We meet the woman who's over a hundred, but still jumped out of a plane for charity. I relied on

15 years of competitive swimming to give me any advantage in a situation where I

had none. The Paralympian who got back in the water after being attacked by a

shark and a modern composer takes up a historic position within the British monarchy.

What drives me is an unquenchable love of music and the thirst for knowledge for music.

We start here in the UK where Manette Bailey became the nation's oldest skydiver.

At the age of 102 years young, Manette did the dive to raise money for three charities, whilst also attempting to break records.

Nabeha Ahmed caught up with Manette and started by asking her what it felt like to jump out of the plane.

As you fall out the plane, the shock of the cold and the wind,

and you don't know in what position you're in.

I thought I was sort of horizontal all the time and then I thought no

I couldn't have been because I started twisting around and I'm afraid I was too

cowardly to open my eyes straight away I thought they would give me a double shock. So I kept my eyes close until I got kind of used it. You are traveling at 130 miles now. So if you're not keen on speed, it's not a sport for you. I was reading about what your tandem for the skydive said and he said you were cool as a cucumber

I was called as a cucumber sitting between his knees in the face of a plane but it's a bit different

when you come out the plane.

You can say I was called as a cucumber when I landed gently on the ground and that was perfect and I did feel perfectly calm I thought now I'd get up I got two men to help me get up and we walked together to the lovely crowd

they were cheering me on and waving and singing and goodness knows what it was lovely

oh I mean who wouldn't enjoy that I mean it's so nice to kind of have that well come after you've done the skydive.

Look at them half the village it turned off.

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