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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Time's up for monkey on the run

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, the adventures and safe recapture of a runaway monkey in Scotland. Also: how scientists tracked down four previously undiscovered penguin colonies. And, the "Motorbike Grandma" riding the length and breadth of China.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles.

0:05.0

It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood.

0:14.8

Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service.

0:19.8

Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:22.3

This is the Happy Pod from the BBC find it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:22.8

This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

0:30.1

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 3rd of February

0:35.0

We need help to find this monkey.

0:37.0

If you've heard him please give us a call.

0:42.0

The Simeon Saga of King Yusey Cole, the Macac Monkey that escaped from a Scottish

0:47.1

wildlife park and captured world attention.

0:50.1

Some positive news from the Antarctic?

0:52.3

We have a couple of satellites that whiz around the earth

0:55.1

and what scientists do is they rummage through those pictures

0:58.8

looking for patches of poo.

1:01.4

Because where there's poo, there are penguins. Also in this podcast. People online have

1:06.1

been inspired by her courage, her sense of adventure, and her attitude that you're never

1:10.7

too old to learn something new. The Chinese woman who's become known as the motor bike Granny,

1:15.8

also the red-legged frog in Oregon

1:18.8

and the superhuman efforts to protect it. And we begin with the adventures of Hon Shoo, the Japanese Snow Monkey that escaped from a wildlife

1:31.5

park in the Scottish Highlands and who for more than five days

1:35.1

was the subject of a big search operation and quite a lot of internet amusement.

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