The Happy Pod

Episodes

• The Happy Pod: Personalised cancer vaccine shows promise in major trial 2026-10-31
  A new personalised skin cancer vaccine has been found to reduce the risk of patients dying or their cancer returning by 42%. As part of a global…
• The Happy Pod: Lost my ring, found some friends 2026-10-24
  Patrick Mohr thought his wedding ring was gone after it fell off his hand while he swam in Italy, but it led to an international friendship with…
• The Happy Pod: An island of strangers saved our wedding 2026-10-17
  When a storm washed out the only road connecting North Carolina's Outer Banks, Kimberly and Jayden turned to the locals of Hatteras Island for help.…
• The Happy Pod: Why I danced for seven days straight 2026-10-10
  A Nigerian man has completed a 168-hour dance marathon in a bid to set a new world record. Benjamin Daniel - better known as 'Ben Dancer' - moved…
• The Happy Pod: Fat Bear Week returns 2026-10-03
  Fat Bear Week is back! The annual contest sees people around the world vote for their favourite bear, ahead of hibernation season. More than two…
• The Happy Pod: The 'privilege' of helping brain tumour patients 2026-09-26
  A rapid new test for brain tumours is taking diagnosis time from weeks to hours. It means patients are spared weeks of uncertainty and can start…
• The Happy Pod: The best friends who turned out to be sisters 2026-09-19
  Meena and Minal were born in India, but adopted by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands. When they first met in their…
• The Happy Pod: The choir proud to admit they can't sing 2026-09-12
  The Off-Key Choir in Southport on Merseyside has a simple motto: just because you can't sing doesn't mean you shouldn't. Around 80 members come…
• 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"…