The Happy Pod: The young couple keeping old photography alive
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We hear how a young couple's passion is keeping traditional film photography alive in central America. Also: an Olympic life saver; an amazing pianist who learnt using a cardboard replica; and a grandma whose advice went viral.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Rachel Wright, and in this edition, |
| 0:10.6 | how a young couple's passion is keeping old-style film photography alive in Central America. |
| 0:16.2 | Sharing this dream with my wife has been a very grateful experience for us. |
| 0:20.8 | It makes me really happy because I never expected to be doing this. |
| 0:25.8 | We see the future with amazing hope. |
| 0:28.9 | An Olympic athlete saves a woman from drowning in Brazil also. |
| 0:33.1 | You've got what would have had marble floor, marble on the walls. |
| 0:37.1 | He had power, he had money and wanted to show it off and impress people. |
| 0:41.6 | Inside the Discovery of the Century at Pompeii, we hear from a Kenyan man who got a music college scholarship |
| 0:48.3 | after teaching himself piano with a cardboard replica, and the grandmother whose life lessons have gone viral. |
| 0:55.6 | When you've had a long life, you've met a number of situations and you just have to take |
| 1:01.0 | that next step. Such simple advice and yet it's so needed. |
| 1:10.4 | We start in Guatemala City where one young couple are keeping an old tradition alive. |
| 1:16.9 | Fabrizio Diaz and his wife Lucia Ramirez run a photography lab, |
| 1:21.6 | developing analogue film in their apartment. |
| 1:24.3 | The pair, both in their 20s, started it as a passion project in 2023, but now |
| 1:30.1 | have hundreds of customers. Arka Film Lab, which they own jointly, has become one of the only |
| 1:36.5 | places in Central America that can develop some types of film, including that used for |
| 1:41.8 | projection slides, and they taught themselves most of the skills. |
| 1:45.9 | Fabrizio told the Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs, why he's so passionate about analogue photography. |
| 1:52.4 | It keeps you focused on the moment. |
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