The Happy Pod: What makes people instinctively kind?
We meet a woman whose near death experience as a teenager inspired her to study why some people are willing to risk their lives for others. Dr Abigail Marsh was rescued by a stranger after a car accid...
31 Jan 26min
The Global Story: How Canada's Mark Carney is taking on Trump
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seemed to challenge Donald Trump in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, declaring that “the old world order is not coming back” and urging fell...
25 Jan 28min
The Happy Pod: Saving lives with the man who saved mine
Mesfin Dollar, who grew up in rural Ethiopia, had to travel to the US for two heart surgeries as a teenager. Twenty-five years later, by chance, he was reunited with the surgeon who saved his life -- ...
24 Jan 26min
The Global Story: The post-World War II era is over. What comes next?
For most of the years since World War 2, many global powers said they adhered to a rules-based international order. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House that idea is falling away. But did it...
18 Jan 28min
The Happy Pod: The injection that saved my sight
We hear from a woman whose determination to avoid going blind has inspired her doctors to develop a new treatment for a rare eye condition. Nicki Guy says the injection of a low cost, water-based gel ...
17 Jan 25min
The Global Story: The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos
When the US government captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday, most of the world was shocked. But US officials had for years been gaming out different scenarios, including predict...
11 Jan 28min
The Happy Pod: The 88-year-old veteran given nearly $2m by strangers
The Australian 'kindness influencer' who raised nearly two million dollars to help an elderly US veteran. Samuel Weidenhofer flew thousands of miles to find Ed Bambas after being told he needed help....
10 Jan 26min
The Happy Pod: Christmas with the man I saved
A US woman whose bone marrow saved a father of three in Australia has spent Christmas with him and his family. Gennaro Rapinese, whose leukaemia was cured by the donation, greeted Cassidy Feeney at t...
4 Jan 26min
