This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alan Smith and it's great to be with you for half an hour or so of uplifting stories from around the world.

In this edition, it's creating a lot of laughter for us as a family with me doing them,

but also when people are receiving them, they're just so ridiculous that people are just really enjoying it for what it is.

We meet the artist who's creating what he says are terrible paintings, but that hasn't

stopped him from getting commissions from all over the world.

We'll find out why. Also, the most lines that I hear is, I feel young again. You've helped me relive my youth.

The care homeworker turned strip performer who's been entertaining some elderly fans.

The man who's using his experience as a child refugee to design robots to help vulnerable youngsters.

I stayed in my room and was coding like crazy.

And that inspired me to seek an education computer science,

despite my parents' guidance that was,

you're going to become a doctor like most immigrants.

Plus, Romeo, the Lonely Manatee, remember him from a year ago?

We've got an update on how he's doing.

But to begin, we're all supposed to have hidden talents.

I'm still trying to think what mine might be.

But one man in the northwest of England has gone viral with his.

Jamie Lee Matthias paints portraits in his spare time.

He must be good at it too because he's had more than 100 commissions from people all over the world.

But there's a catch.

You see, these paintings are what Jamie calls terrible. And some of his work has been mistaken for that of a child. It's a catch. You see, these paintings are what Jamie calls terrible.

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