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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Viral ballet boy back in the spotlight

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, we meet the teenager whose dancing in the rain in Nigeria brought online fame that's inspired a documentary. Also: The Mongolian Yak herders helping to make fashion sustainable. And how a four-legged tour guide is keeping visitors on the right track.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

0:03.3

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in this edition uploaded on Saturday April the 20th,

0:12.3

we meet the teenager who's dancing in the rain in Nigeria

0:15.5

brought viral fame that's inspired a documentary about him. It's quite a story.

0:20.7

I would recommend when you're watching it have like a tissue bark because you're

0:24.5

probably gonna cry because I did. The 67 year old thought to be the world's oldest

0:29.9

gorilla so what she really like. She's a sweet granny so we fulfilled her wish and now she lives in a great retirement home.

0:39.0

Also in the happy pot.

0:41.0

I think if you want to imagine they're tiny meatballs. We find out

0:45.2

why these so-called tiny meatballs are a breakthrough in prenatal medicine and he's

0:51.0

really good about if you're going off the trail he just sits and he won't go any further

0:55.6

until you come back and then he'll correct where you're supposed to go.

1:00.4

Find out more about this sure-footed tour guide.

1:04.0

Now you may remember a video that went viral four years ago of a young Nigerian boy dancing in the rain and

1:16.2

pirouetting through muddy puddles. After becoming an internet sensation, Anthony Madu was offered a place

1:22.4

at the prestigious Elmhurst Ballet School in the city of

1:25.4

Birmingham here in Britain.

1:27.1

Anthony, who's now 14 years old, is training to become a professional ballet dancer. It's an amazing journey and Disney Plus has made a

1:35.2

documentary about his life called Madu. I was five years old when I discovered

1:41.0

by me. People think that it's not for boys.

1:45.0

It's my dream and I have to follow it.

1:50.0

Sarah Montague spoke to Anthony and asked him how he felt about the film.

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