--:-- Asma Khalid: This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere. I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC.
--:-- Tristan Redman: I'm Tristan Redman in London.
--:-- Asma Khalid: And this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Oliver Conway: Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and in this edition, from guarding art to exhibiting his own at a world-famous museum. I never remember one day I would be standing in the mat as an artist in a major exhibit. It's surreal, it's magical.
--:-- Oliver Conway: We meet the security guard whose kindness to a visitor led to his own work going on display. Also... It was just instant, absolutely amazing. I was in disbelief. Now I've got the confidence to go out and meet people again. A new treatment that can improve the lives of people with Parkinson's. The potential health benefits of non-alcoholic beer? The longest story ever told. And why a tiny kingdom known for keeping global influences out has welcomed one of the world's biggest stars.
--:-- Oliver Conway: The Bhutanese are very in tune with pop culture, be it Western pop. I don't think it will be corrupting. But we start with the remarkable story of a man who's gone from guarding works of art to having his own sculpture on display at one of the world's most famous museums.
--:-- Amir Khalil: Amir Khalil graduated from art school in his home country of Egypt, but after moving to the US in 2006, he ended up working as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: In his free time, he kept up his passion for sculpting, and one day a chance encounter led to an opportunity he'd always dreamed of.
--:-- Amir Khalil: Amir told Holly Gibbs how the Met Museum had inspired him almost since he arrived in New York.
--:-- Amir Khalil: Once I moved, of course, the reality was different. It's not like a movie. I mean, struggling to live and find a place to sleep. And it was really kind of struggling to make some art or back to my tools.
--:-- Amir Khalil: Of course, it's not easy. And I got sick a little bit because of the wizard. So the Met was the very first museum and almost like first place ever to visit in New York.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: How does that feel now that you have your own sculpture on display there? That must be really surreal.
--:-- Amir Khalil: It is really surreal for me and it's overwhelming now and I'm really grateful, of course, but it's really surreal still, by the way, even though I talk about it and I'm trying to understand it because I never planned this, even though in my dreams, I never planned it.
--:-- Amir Khalil: I would like one day I would be standing in the mat as an artist in a major exhibit. It's surreal. It's magical. It's so divine.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: And you worked there as a security guard surrounded by the art that you loved and the art that you knew you could make. How was that? Was that frustrating?
--:-- Amir Khalil: Oh, yeah, of course. I've been working now for this is almost my 13 now. I'm going to my 13 years surrounding like by all kinds of arts and history from all over Dorle.
--:-- Amir Khalid: Because I mean for everybody here at the Met, it's the museum, our museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has an amazing collection of all kinds of arts and history from all over the world.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: So it's really an amazing place, and I like walking every day in the galleries, looking to the art around me. Of course, it's really inspiring, and it's really amazing feelings to be surrounded by all this art and artists and their spirits around.
--:-- Amir Khalil: It's really an amazing experience.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: And it was a chance encounter that led to you having your artwork on display in the Met. Talk us through that. How did that happen?
--:-- Amir Khalil: It was almost, I would say, early August 2023. And it was just like a very normal day for me as a security officer. And I was like trying to help one of the visitors at this point.
--:-- Amir Khalil: He seemed for me like he's a normal visitor coming around. And his answer, yes, I'm looking for a painting. The name of this painting was Flight into Egypt.
--:-- Amir Khalil: Of course, I knew it, and I knew it, and I told him, yeah, let me walk you in my galleries. And just in a few seconds, we were talking, and I was really curious to know why he's looking for this painting.
--:-- Amir Khalil: And I told him that, of course. I told him I'm Egyptian too, and I'm an artist. And he got his badge, the museum's badge, and showed it to me.
--:-- Amir Khalil: And he said, my name is Achille Tomasino. I'm the creator of modern contemporary art here at the Met. And the conversation now is like totally different.
--:-- Amir Khalil: He told me about his plan. He's planning for a major exhibit under the same name of this painting that we are standing in front of, which is Flight into Egypt.
--:-- Amir Khalil: And that was the start.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: Tell us about your sculpture that's now on display there. The sculpture, of course, is inspired by the Egyptian art.
--:-- Amir Khalil: And it was carved out of one piece of wood, ash wood. And I made it especially for this show after our talk and after I was inspired by his invitation and his generosity, actually.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: I wonder if you could cast your mind back to the day that you were walking around the Met as one of the first places that you visited after you'd moved.
--:-- Amir Khalil: What would you tell yourself now if you could go back and tell yourself that your art would be on display?
--:-- Amir Khalil: Oh my God. I still, by the way, I still remember that feeling and still see myself walking in the galleries as a visitor.
--:-- Amir Khalil: It's kind of a surreal question for myself because now I work at the Met as a security officer and I know the galleries.
--:-- Amir Khalil: I know the places I visited in 2006. Almost I can see myself walking. I was really kind of flying and happy, kind of virtually hugging the arts and the Egyptian, of course.
--:-- Amir Khalil: Yeah, I would say I'm still happy. That was really kind of an inspiring visit. Really an amazing experience.
--:-- Holly Gibbs: You made it. Yes, ma'am. And I'm grateful. I'm really grateful.
--:-- Oliver Conway: Now to a high-tech treatment that could significantly improve the lives of people with Parkinson's disease.
--:-- Julian Warwicker: As you may have heard on the Global News podcast a few days ago, it involves an implant in the brain that can control tremors using tiny pulses of electricity deep brain stimulation as it known.
--:-- Julian Warwicker: Unlike older versions that had to be reprogrammed in hospital this new one can read a patient brain signals and help manage their symptoms straight away, all controlled by a tiny computer in their chest.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: Julian Warwicker has been speaking to Akbar Hussain, one of the first doctors in the world to offer this new treatment, and to his patient, Kevin Hill.
--:-- Kevin Hill: Parkinson's affects different people in different ways, and with me it was a tremor, and it was getting worse by the week.
--:-- Kevin Hill: And I was finding that I wasn't going out and socialising, I was hiding myself, I was getting withdrawn. It was affecting my mental health.
--:-- Kevin Hill: Because you'd been diagnosed, what, five years prior to that, I think, hadn't you?
--:-- Kevin Hill: Yeah, that's true, yeah. You'd got that gradual deterioration in your overall state of health over that.
--:-- Kevin Hill: Yeah, and I would say things were just getting worse and worse as it progressed.
--:-- Kevin Hill: So when this option of the implant was put in front of you, what did you think?
--:-- Kevin Hill: I was in two minds, whether they were a go-for or not, because it seemed to be a big operation for a go-through, and it wasn't a promise of success.
--:-- Kevin Hill: And when it was turned on, what happened?
--:-- Kevin Hill: I'd been shaking for years. My wife was there, and they went on a computer, and it was just instant, absolutely amazing.
--:-- Kevin Hill: I was in disbelief. I just stopped the shaking. And it's continued like that ever since, has it?
--:-- Kevin Hill: I've had my good days and bad days, but I have more good days than I do bad days.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: Akbar, tell us a bit about this device, how it's fitted, how it works.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: So it's in two parts really. The main part is the battery itself which contains the computer chip as well.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: It's developed from like cardiac pacemaker technology but instead of hooking it up to wires that go to the heart, I hook it up to wires that have implanted into the middle of the brain.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: Once it's in the right place you can then send little pulses of energy to these deep brain structures and the wiring or the electrical activity that is not quite working well in these different disease processes such as Parkinson's disease or dystonia or central tremor, we can fine-tune the stimulus so we can get rid of some of the symptoms that the patient's suffering from.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: It's effective and helps about 80% of people who have the deep brain stimulation device but there is a group of people that it might not help as well as has helped Kevin.
--:-- Kevin Hill: Kevin on that quality of life point, what are you able to do now that you couldn't do before?
--:-- Kevin Hill: No, I've got the confidence to go out and meet people again so I can go to the pub.
--:-- Kevin Hill: I don't mind going out. I used to like to go out and ride on my bike. That's one thing I couldn't do because I was in aches and pains.
--:-- Kevin Hill: I like to game a snooker and now I can play snooker again.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: What are the potential risks, downsides that might be present here?
--:-- Akbar Hussain: I mean, this is complicated. It's invasive surgery. There must be risks.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: There's no such thing as brain surgery without any risks, unfortunately.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: But out of all the different types of brain surgery that we do, this is probably the safest one we do because it's very minimally intrusive.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: And once it's making a difference, I mean, once somebody is significantly better as a result of having this fitted, as Kevin clearly is, I mean, is there any reason why that situation cannot continue?
--:-- Akbar Hussain: I mean, can you put a time scale on for how long something like this can be realistically effective?
--:-- Akbar Hussain: The deep brain stimulation doesn't modify the disease process. You still have Parkinson's disease.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: The symptoms will progress over time. Now how long it takes to progress as an individual is different for different people.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: I don't think that we'll have to worry about the longevity being just a couple of years.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: I think it is, we're talking about decades. It's excellent news to think we'll get 20 years out of this.
--:-- Akbar Hussain: It's amazing, absolutely amazing.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: Next to Morocco, where storytellers from 33 countries have broken a world record by recounting their tales continuously for more than three days.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: Their recital in the main square in Marrakech lasted 80 hours and 34 minutes.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: The event was part of the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival, which also included workshops in local schools.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: Our very own storyteller, Richard Hamilton, was there.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: This is the Jamar al-Fanar, the famous square right at the heart of the ancient Medina of Marrakesh.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: And it was here a thousand years ago that storytellers began telling tales in the square.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: They'd stand in a circle of onlookers and tell ancient tales. And this carried on for hundreds of years until in the 1970s, 1970s, as Moroccans got televisions, radios, then later the internet, social media, the young generation forgot about storytelling and it began to die out.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: But now the Marrakesh International Storytelling Festival is trying to revive an interest in storytelling.
--:-- Richard Hamilton: As part of that, they're trying to break the record for the longest continuous storytelling session.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: Birds Nest spoke, Governor, I can only give you one advice. Be good. Just do good.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: And Birds Nest said, Governor, a five-year-old can understand this, but a 78-year-old still finds it difficult to understand what I've just said.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: Grab them by the knee Grab them by the ankle
--:-- Brahim Daldari: Or you can hold on like a handle
--:-- Brahim Daldari: Do not do what Wee Tom did Wee Tom Was grabbed by the shoe With no lace in it
--:-- Brahim Daldari: And he went out of the window And up into the air High, high, high, high, high, high, high
--:-- Brahim Daldari: He suddenly saw That in front of him In the place where the dove Should have fallen There was a wall A stone wall made of fine old bricks.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: He has never seen a wall in this forest. It was something new, as if the wall appeared by magic.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: And then he discovered a door. And it was a fine carved door made of sandalwood. And the door was not closed. It was open.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: My name is Brahim Daldari. I am a storyteller from Safru.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: Storytelling Festival in Marrakesh has opened a big door for me to meet authors, to meet also academic people.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: So it's a huge opportunity for me. So many young people, they are working, they are learning how to become a professional storyteller.
--:-- Brahim Daldari: We teach young storytellers to be professional. So storytelling family starts growing.
--:-- John Rowe: I'm John Rowe, Artistic Director of the Marikosha International Storytelling Festival.
--:-- John Rowe: How important is the festival in terms of reviving the tradition I prefer to call it a resuscitation because it never quite died but it was in need of a little help
--:-- John Rowe: We're just one part of a process, I think, but a very important part.
--:-- John Rowe: Bringing it back to the square, making it a spectacle again, because that was part of the problem.
--:-- John Rowe: It was no longer a spectacle in the square. So are you reclaiming the space? Because this was always traditionally a cultural, sacred space for storytelling.
--:-- John Rowe: Are you reclaiming it?
--:-- John Rowe: Well, that is exactly what I stand up to. Ladies and gentlemen, Assembled Company, we are reclaiming the square for storytelling.
--:-- John Rowe: The square was, for a thousand years, had storytelling, and it was one of the most important parts of the square, apart from the 6,000 camels.
--:-- Oliver Conway: And still to come on the Happy Pod... Often got a fantastic view, you're getting lungfuls of oxygen and then as you come out, body steaming and you're embracing all the elements.
--:-- Oliver Conway: Almost the worse the weather, the better it is. Why a traditional Nordic relaxation method is becoming increasingly popular.
--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing. And so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Asma Khalid: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London.
--:-- Asma Khalid: And this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Marnie Chesterton: Millions of people around the world have just finished dry January, giving up alcohol for a month as a New Year resolution.
--:-- Marnie Chesterton: For those who switch to alcohol-free beer, there could be added health benefits compared to having soft drinks and even water.
--:-- Marnie Chesterton: In addition, firms have been working on improving the taste with alcohol-free beer the fastest-growing sector of what was known as the alcoholic drinks industry.
--:-- David de Schutter: This is an experimental brewery that actually can create whatever type of beer we want to make.
--:-- David de Schutter: My name is David de Schutter and I'm heading research and development globally for ABNM.
--:-- David de Schutter: We're always pursuing a better beer, especially for no-alcohol beer.
--:-- David de Schutter: David and his team use a newer innovation called vacuum distillation.
--:-- David de Schutter: The boiling point of the alcohol reduces, then you don't harm the beer.
--:-- David de Schutter: Prost. Prost.
--:-- David de Schutter: So it has been through the vacuum distillation, and then we applied our aroma technology to bring back the beer flavour to life.
--:-- David de Schutter: You need to add the gas as well back, so you need to recarbonate the beer.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: But there is another way to make non-alcoholic beer, And that's to not brew the alcohol in the first place.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: We're in the lab of Kevin Verstreppen, world expert on yeast, at the University of Leuven and the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: So in total we have something like 20,000, 25,000 different yeasts.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: Kevin's lab studies yeast for multiple purposes, one of them being to make better yeasts for the beer industry.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: And so how do you make a non-alcoholic beer? For that you use a different yeast, one that doesn't produce alcohol, but has a metabolism similar to humans.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: We also eat sugar, but we don't make alcohol, we make water and carbon dioxide.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: Once you take the alcohol out, you end up with quite nutritious drink.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: Alcohol itself also contains quite a few calories. Alcohol-free beer has some antioxidants, has some vitamins, some lipids.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: And is there anything specific coming from the yeast?
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: What the yeast will do is it will take the refined sugars and eat those.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: So it takes those bad sugars away for us.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: It's for sure more healthy than sugar-containing soda.
--:-- Kevin Verstreppen: It's a pretty good sports drink.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: I know that even the German Olympic team or the soccer team, I think at some point was allowed to drink alcohol-free beers.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: We checked. It was the Olympic team.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: And actually, it was thanks to the doctor for the German Olympic ski team who conducted a study on marathon runners finding that non-alcoholic beer reduced inflammation and respiratory infections.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: Now, why would that be?
--:-- Claudia Marquez: Well, there seems to be one more thing that non-alcoholic beer can offer us.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: I'm Claudia. I'm a nutritionist and I'm a professor of nutrition and metabolism at Nova Medical School in Lisbon, Portugal.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: Claudia Marquez studies the effects of food and drink on our gut microbiomes.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: So one group drink alcoholic beer and the other one drink non-alcoholic beer. It was one bottle of beer per day.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: And after four weeks, this consumption increased the diversity of microorganisms that we have in our gut.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: A good diversity is usually associated to health.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: So what's in beer that's helping diversify our gut microbiomes?
--:-- Claudia Marquez: Polyphenols can be responsible for these effects. Polyphenols are chemicals that we found in plants.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: We feed the good bacteria instead of feeding the bad bacteria.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: They can also have other properties such as anti-inflammatory effects.
--:-- Claudia Marquez: We probably need more research looking into these polyphenols to really understand the health benefits of non-alcoholic beer.
--:-- John Harrison: The Himalayan state of Bhutan generally avoids Western cultural influences, like fast food restaurants or coffee shop chains.
--:-- John Harrison: It's trying to protect its traditions and values.
--:-- John Harrison: But now Ed Sheeran has become the first major Western artist to perform there, taking to the stage in a football stadium in the capital Timpu, following local support act Rebellions.
--:-- John Harrison: Well, John Harrison editor of the Daily Bhutan newspaper spoke to my colleague Rebecca Kesby
--:-- John Harrison: The hotel is just full of excitement about this concert In fact, there was no one really paying attention to work.
--:-- John Harrison: I couldn't get any emails done to it. Really?
--:-- John Harrison: So for four hours prior to the concert, people are already on the ground.
--:-- John Harrison: We might just have the biggest crowd ever in Timpu, Chimilang Thang Stadium.
--:-- John Harrison: Bhutan generally avoids everything Western and Western culture, doesn't it? So why Ed Sheeran?
--:-- John Harrison: I don't think Bhutan avoids Western culture. Although TV and internet arrived in 1999, which is probably the latest in all the countries.
--:-- John Harrison: But the Bhutanese are very in tune with pop culture, be it Western pop.
--:-- John Harrison: So yes, Bhutan has their own local pop culture, Bhutanese songs, but they do listen to music from all over the world.
--:-- John Harrison: But in terms of actually having an artist visit, I mean, was the thought that Ed Sheeran wouldn't be a corrupting influence on the culture?
--:-- John Harrison: I don't think he'll be corrupting. I think music is in every Bhutanese sing and dance. That's part of their culture.
--:-- John Harrison: Tell us a bit more about the strategy of why it's being held now though, because we understand the king has got ambitions to build a new city, a mindfulness city, which would be more open for tourists.
--:-- John Harrison: The king has identified a piece of land about four times the size of Singapore to build the Gullifu Mindfulness City that is infused with spirituality and mindfulness to attract like-minded businesses and entrepreneurs and citizens to come and work from this city.
--:-- John Harrison: Bhutanese people are often considered to be the happiest on earth, aren't they? Something about the culture and the way of life.
--:-- John Harrison: What do you think the rest of us could learn in terms of the approach to life that might make us all a bit happier?
--:-- John Harrison: Bhutanese belief is very much rooted in spirituality. The medium that they use to reach spirituality is Buddhism.
--:-- John Harrison: Bhutanese are naturally very spiritual. It's got to do with the land, that they respect every part of the land, be it the water, be it the trees, be it the rocks.
--:-- John Harrison: These are all, entire environment in Bhutan is respected by the people.
--:-- Liz Watson: Now, for many, this is the sound of pure relaxation. Water hitting the hot stones of a traditional sauna.
--:-- Liz Watson: In Nordic countries, outdoor saunas, often complete with ice-cold plunge pools, are seen as essential to physical and emotional well-being and date back thousands of years.
--:-- Liz Watson: But amid the stresses of 21st century life, they've grown in popularity elsewhere in the world.
--:-- Liz Watson: Here in the UK, the number has more than trebled in the past couple of years.
--:-- Liz Watson: Liz Watson, who runs a sauna on a beach in southern England, interviewed some of her regulars for the BBC.
--:-- Liz Watson: It's a little bit of an escape out of my week and it's nice to have something just down the road that feels like you're completely sort of back into the nature.
--:-- Liz Watson: You know, being out here at any time of day, you've got the fire, you've got the saunas, you've got the hot, the cold, and it just makes you feel alive.
--:-- Liz Watson: Almost like a moment of, like, mindfulness. Just to, yeah, just switch off, especially in the silent one.
--:-- Liz Watson: Yeah. Just getting into a nice bar. I've been coming now for about a year, and I'm sort of making it sort of a weekly thing, and it just totally sorts my head out.
--:-- Liz Watson: I mean, I've got a very stressful job and it's just time to come and sort of just reflect.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: We're nicely sort of tucked away and as you arrive, there's a little sort of wooden fence in a circle and then you see a sort of corral of saunas and horse trailers that are converted into saunas, some that have been built from scratch and little changing rooms and a fire pit in the middle and three sort of plunge pool areas.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: So, yeah, it's interesting. It's beautiful. That's a whole community you've got there.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: Yeah, it really is. What is it about outdoor saunas?
--:-- Johnny Diamond: I suspect a fair few listeners may sort of know of the sort of slightly smelly sauna that's at the back of the changing room in the squash courts or something like that.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: Outdoor saunas are rather different though, aren't they?
--:-- Johnny Diamond: As you said, the gym sauna is often filled with chlorine gas and you can't put water on the rocks.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: The spa sauna is often the same. It's next to the pool and it's like a little dry box and you're sitting in there saying, what am I meant to be doing now?
--:-- Johnny Diamond: You go to an outdoor sauna, often got a fantastic view. You're getting lungfuls of oxygen.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: And then as you come out, your body's steaming and you're embracing all the elements.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: Doesn't matter whether it's raining, snowing, windy, almost the worse the weather, the better it is.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: The critical question, I'm sure for a fair few listeners, will be, do you need to be naked in the sauna?
--:-- Johnny Diamond: Aha! I don't know if you're German or not, really. But we're not.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: Well, I had a naked event hosted by a German. For Germans, it's disgusting to be in a sauna with a costume on because you're not allowing your body to sweat enough.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: We're just a little bit more prudish here still. And we're perfectly comfortable with you coming in with everything covered up unless it's a designated event.
--:-- Johnny Diamond: But yeah. OK, Liz Watson, all power to your sauna. Thank you so much for joining us.
--:-- Oliver Conway: In the interest of balance, I should say that other forms of relaxation are available. They're just not as good.
--:-- Oliver Conway: Johnny Diamond talking to outdoor sauna owner Liz Watson.
--:-- Oliver Conway: And that is all from the Happy Pod for now. If you'd like to get in touch about any of our stories or if you have one of your own to share, you can send us an email or voice note to globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Oliver Conway: This edition was mixed by Daniel Fox and produced by Holly Gibbs and Rachel Balkely.
--:-- Oliver Conway: Our editor is Karen Martin. I'm Oliver Conway. Until next time, goodbye.
--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing. And so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Asma Khalid: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. I'm Tristan Redman in London.
--:-- Asma Khalid: And this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
