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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Tutus and triumph

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, we meet one of the hundreds of ballerinas who balanced on their toes in New York to set a new world record. Also: how a generous stranger gave a kidney to a five-year-old girl. And we hear from Europe's best seagull impersonator.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lots of moving from one country to another on the happy part this week with stories in Australia and Finland.

0:05.8

And after 353 ballerinas set a new world record in New York,

0:11.0

I'll talk to one of them.

0:12.2

Hi, I'm Sally Caruso from California and you're listening to the Happy Pod.

0:17.0

I'm Andrew Peach.

0:21.0

Also on the way, we'll meet Liffey the generous stranger who gave a

0:25.2

kidney to a five-year-old girl. Knowing that I've played a part in helping her just

0:30.5

lead a normal life that's enough for me.

0:33.0

How Tik-Tok is teaching Oliver to read.

0:36.0

I'm sitting in my car right now, I never learned to read.

0:38.0

But at the end, they're like, I just picked up a book at the library.

0:40.0

I'm like, hey, since you, I'm going to go today.

0:43.0

A holiday with a difference for Pam from Newfoundland.

0:46.0

While we're not back in the days when we're, you know, chopping our wood and lugging the water,

0:51.0

the weather is still a real big drag here in New Philand.

0:55.0

And...

0:56.0

Europe's best seagull impersonator, a nine-year-old called Cooper.

1:04.0

We begin at one of New York's famous and glamorous landmarks, the Plaza Hotel.

1:14.0

Go!

1:15.0

That was the moment that scores of ballerinas took on the Guinness world record

1:26.5

for the largest number of dancers to be on point balanced on the tips of their toes

1:31.5

for a whole minute at the same time. Not easy, especially as they

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