The Happy Pod: Atomic bomb survivors campaigning for peace
In this Happy Pod special we're in Munich, Germany for One Young World. We speak to survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and their families as they turn their painful memories into a call for p...
8 Nov 202529min
The Happy Pod: Soldiers' letters from 1916 finally home
Messages in a bottle from two Australian World War One soldiers have been found on a beach and are now back with their relatives. Debra Brown's family were cleaning up on Wharton Beach when they found...
1 Nov 202527min
The Happy Pod: 'I'm blind but I can read a book again'
Doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have used microchips to help blind patients regain the ability to read. Also: the woman who played the clarinet during brain surgery, helping the doctors f...
25 Okt 202526min
The Happy Pod: The healing power of singing
A singing group designed for women with post-natal depression has been shown to deliver long lasting improvements in their wellbeing. A three year study found that it helped them with symptoms like lo...
18 Okt 202527min
The Happy Pod: Love, cake, and a long-lost mother
We hear how a man's search for his birth mother ended in an unexpected but familiar place - his favourite local bakery. Vamarr Hunter was shocked to discover that the bakery's owner, whose company and...
11 Okt 202527min
The Happy Pod: The teenager empowering thousands to succeed
An 18-year-old entrepreneur who has helped more than twenty thousand teenagers get skills, training and mentoring has been recognised with a global student prize. Adarsh Kumar grew up in poverty in r...
4 Okt 202528min
Gaza Conflict: Two years on
To mark two years of the war in Gaza, our correspondents bring you this special episode of the Global News Podcast from the BBC Bureau in Jerusalem. Jon Donnison is joined by our Gaza correspondent Ru...
30 Sep 202531min
The Happy Pod: Hope for people with Huntington's disease
For the first time ever, a successful treatment has been found for the devastating brain disease, Huntington's. The inherited condition, which resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson's and moto...
27 Sep 202527min
