The Happy Pod

Episodes

• 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…
• The Happy Pod: What makes people instinctively kind? 2026-01-31
  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…
• The Happy Pod: Saving lives with the man who saved mine 2026-01-24
  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…
• The Happy Pod: The injection that saved my sight 2026-01-17
  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…
• The Happy Pod: The 88-year-old veteran given nearly $2m by strangers 2026-01-10
  The Australian 'kindness influencer' who raised nearly two million dollars to help an elderly US veteran. Samuel Weidenhofer flew thousands of miles…
• The Happy Pod: Christmas with the man I saved 2026-01-04
  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…
• The Happy Pod: The magic of festive airport reunions 2025-12-20
  Videos capturing the joy and emotion of families reuniting at Dublin Airport for the festive season have received thousands of views online. We…
• The Happy Pod: The cafe where mistakes are expected 2025-12-13
  A pop-up cafe in Tokyo is giving people with dementia a place to volunteer as well as a sense of community. A volunteer there, Toshio Morita, has…
• The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby 2025-12-06
  We hear about an extraordinary story of love, friendship and a teenage promise fulfilled over a decade later. When Georgia Barrington was told, at…