The Happy Pod

Episodes

• The Happy Pod: Record pig kidney transplant brings hope 2026-09-04
  A man in the US has survived for a record nine months with a kidney from a genetically modified pig, bringing hope to transplant patients across the…
• The Happy Pod: My tattoo is his voice 2026-08-29
  Jessica Fletcher wanted to find a way to communicate with her autistic non-speaking son, Hunter, which could be used everywhere. So, she got a…
• The Happy Pod: AI helped find the siblings I didn’t know about 2026-08-22
  Avtar Singh, who was born in India and is now 66 years old, grew up not knowing his Kenyan-born mother, because his father had separated from her…
• The Happy Pod: How Neil the Seal won hearts across the world 2026-08-15
  Neil the Seal has captured the hearts - and laughs - of people across the world with his mischievous antics. The elephant seal keeps returning to…
• The Happy Pod: The baby saved by surgery in the womb 2026-08-08
  We hear about the pioneering operation that fixed a baby's life-threatening condition while he was still in the womb. Theo and his mum Maisie…
• The Happy Pod: The joy of rowing solo in the Pacific 2026-08-01
  Kelsey Pfendler has completed a record-breaking journey across the Pacific Ocean, where she became the fastest person to row solo from California to…
• The Happy Pod: My best friend turned out to be my brother 2026-07-25
  Dave and Andrea met by chance at work. They got on so well they could complete each other's sentences - which made sense when they discovered they…
• The Happy Pod: Portugal’s last circus elephant rehomed 2026-07-18
  For 40 years, an elephant named Julie performed as part of the Victor Hugo Cardinali circus in Portugal. But after a law change banning wild animals…
• The Happy Pod: Inviting strangers round for dinner 2026-07-11
  When Nidhi and Vik moved to Northern Ireland, they came up with an unusual way to make new friends - hosting dinner parties made up of strangers.…
• The Happy Pod: Meeting a princess while climbing a mountain 2026-07-04
  Pete Haslam was carrying his paraplegic son Ted up a mountain, helped by friends and family, when they bumped into Catherine, Princess of Wales. She…
• The Happy Pod: All aboard the Bike Bus 2026-06-27
  We find out about bike buses - an increasingly popular way for children to cycle to school safely. They involve travelling in a large group,…
• The Happy Pod: Success stories of former refugees 2026-06-20
  The Happy Pod is celebrating World Refugee Day. We hear from Razan Alsous, who fled from Syrian to the UK and wanted a taste of home. She now runs a…
• The Happy Pod: Surviving six days alone on Everest 2026-06-13
  We hear from the man who survived for nearly a week on one of the most dangerous parts of Mount Everest with little food, no water and few supplies.…
• The Happy Pod: Kinder medicine for millions of cancer patients 2026-06-06
  A new DNA test can distinguish between patients who are likely to benefit from chemotherapy and those who are not, meaning many with the most common…
• The Happy Pod: The simple plastic sheet saving lives 2026-05-30
  Researchers say a simple sheet of plastic is helping to prevent women dying after childbirth. The drape measures blood loss, which allows doctors to…
• The Happy Pod: The art of ageing gracefully 2026-05-23
  We find out why art could be the secret to living longer and how you can view the National Gallery's world-renowned collections from the comfort of…
• The Happy Pod: My college designs on display at the Met 2026-05-16
  We meet a teacher whose college fashion designs have gone on display at the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nadia Pinkney says she…
• The Happy Pod: 'Life changing' treatment restored my daughter's vision 2026-05-09
  Six-year-old Saffie would have gone completely blind by adulthood, if not for a groundbreaking gene therapy. Her mother says she is now "thriving"…
• The Happy Pod: Running topless because I'm proud of my scars 2026-05-02
  We meet a woman who started running marathons topless after having both her breasts removed because of cancer. Louise Butcher tells us she wanted to…
• The Happy Pod: I invented a way for my brother to communicate 2026-04-25
  Ari wanted to help his brother Ben engage with the world after he lost the ability to walk, talk or move his hands. So he designed and built him a…
• The Happy Pod: Filling the empty chair left by my best friend 2026-04-18
  We meet the man helping to tackle loneliness by offering strangers somewhere to sit and chat. Dean Perryman started the Empty Chairs project,…
• The Happy Pod: From a small town, to the moon 2026-04-11
  The mayor of Ingersoll beams with pride at the Canadian town being represented on Artemis II. Ingersoll is home to 15,000 people, including the…
• The Happy Pod: The decades long wait for the World Cup 2026-04-04
  We now know the 48 nations that will be competing in the summer's FIFA World Cup. The final two sides to qualify - Iraq and the DRC - have each…
• The Happy Pod: The hug that stopped a bombing 2026-03-28
  A patient who stopped a bomb attack at a hospital has revealed he hugged the would-be-attacker to calm him down. Nathan Newby spent two hours…
• The Happy Pod: Beers, braids and bonding 2026-03-21
  We meet the men on a mission to help fellow Dads connect with their daughters, through a movement called 'pints and ponytails'. It's a chance to…
• The Happy Pod: Turning my toddler's tales into tunes 2026-03-14
  Stephen Spencer has set his daughter's stories to music. What started as something he posted for his few followers has turned into a social media…
• The Happy Pod: My friends made me a new hand 2026-03-07
  Lois, 14, and her classmates used a 3D printer to create her new hand as part of a school project. Now they want to make prosthetic limbs for other…
• The Happy Pod: Former teacher celebrated as a crocodile 2026-02-21
  After identifying a new species of ancient crocodile for his PhD, Ewan Bodenham honoured his favourite physics teacher who inspired him many years…
• The Happy Pod: The model redefining beauty norms 2026-02-14
  We meet a Ghanaian woman who is challenging stereotypes of beauty and disability by modelling with her prosthetic leg wrapped in colourful kente…