Unexpected birthday party
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for an unexpected celebration and we look to science for advice on clothes, cake and how presenter Marnie and panellists Christine and Candice can improve their singing. We also hear about the sleuths who have tracked down an animal that’s been presumed extinct for almost a century, we help a listener find the answer to whether using sunscreen is stopping him from getting vitamin d and Marnie talks to the Dog Aging Project to ask why studying healthy ageing in our canine companions can lead to better health for people too. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Panellists: Christine Yohannes and Candice Bailey Guests: Bryan Nichols, Pennsylvania State University and Matt Kaberline, founder of the Dog Aging Project. Producer: Tom Bonnett with Dan Welsh, Emily Knight, Julia Ravey and Noa Dowling
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello. You have chosen a BBC podcast, but before you listen to it, we thought you might |
| 0:04.7 | like our podcast too. You might. You might. It is called Sightracked with me, Nick Grimshaw. |
| 0:09.2 | And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music. All the news, all the cultural |
| 0:14.0 | happenings in the UK and beyond. And great guests. And it's on BBC Sounds. Yes, where you can |
| 0:19.7 | also enjoy lots of playlists, music mixes and |
| 0:22.6 | live radio. Everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind. But obviously start |
| 0:29.2 | with our podcast, sidetrack. Obviously. Obviously. So if you like music, listen on BBC |
| 0:33.7 | Sounds. My youngest brother is moving to a seaside town that celebrates May Day in a big way. |
| 0:42.5 | They paint a man known as Jack in the Green, entirely green, and then completely cover him in |
| 0:48.7 | leaves and twigs topped off with a floral crown. |
| 0:52.3 | He then dances around the town and at the end of the day, |
| 0:55.4 | he's stripped of all of his leaves to release the spirit of summer. And if you grab a leaf, |
| 1:00.5 | you get a year of good luck. The previous year's luck was clearly in short supply, because not only did it |
| 1:06.6 | rain heavily the entire time, but the mains water pipe burst and no one in the town had |
| 1:12.4 | the right kind of water over the busiest time of year. But my brother was determined not to miss out |
| 1:18.4 | on the fund, so he bundled his car full of bottled water, and he headed down to welcome in the |
| 1:23.3 | summer in a very peculiar British way. I'm Marnie Chasterton from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:29.6 | This is unexpected elements. |
| 1:38.5 | As always, I'm joined by a panel of journalists from around the world. |
| 1:42.8 | In Dallas, Texas, we have our globe-trotting |
| 1:45.8 | Ethiopia representing health specialist Christine Johannes. Hello, Christine. Hello, |
| 1:51.2 | Salam, salam. And in Joburg, South Africa, journalist Candice Bailey. Lovely to see you again, |
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