--:-- 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.
--:-- Tristan Redman: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC. I'm Tristan Redman in London. And this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.
--:-- Host: Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Jamila Jackson: Hello, I'm Jamila Jackson and you're listening to The Happy Pod on the BBC World Service.
--:-- Oliver Conway: Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and in this edition...
--:-- Jamila Jackson: It was agonising to leave the NICU without Zach. I held them skin to skin when I was in the NICU and I touched them. But who was going to do that when I wasn't there?
--:-- Host: How one woman's desire to help her premature baby has provided comfort for thousands of others around the world.
--:-- Oliver Conway: A major health milestone as Egypt is declared malaria-free.
--:-- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: If you have a country free of malaria, you will have a lot of economic nourishment, a healthy generation, which a healthy generation equals a good economy.
--:-- Dr. Islam Anan: The first and most important is the vector control. The vector control, which is the mosquito itself, to make sure that we don't have the mosquito across the borders.
--:-- Host: We hear from a man who turned his time spent living on the streets into a job as a tour guide.
--:-- Rebecca Wood: I know the wee ins and outs everywhere. That's Sonny, a tour guide in Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh.
--:-- Sonny: My tour is all about crime and punishment, so I show like the old prisons, the old gallows and stuff.
--:-- Host: But our next story is about a tour with a difference, highlighting the places that most visitors don't see and giving a boost to some of the city's most vulnerable residents.
--:-- Rebecca Wood: When on holiday in a new city, a guided tour can help provide a local perspective while making sure you don't miss any of the main attractions.
--:-- Anna Murphy: Pia San Beach has the widest stretch of sand in South Korea and no matter how far into the ocean you go there's no deep water so people who are afraid of swimming or those with children can enjoy the ocean with no fear or risk.
--:-- Um Junshun: The beach is a public place that everyone should be able to enjoy not just certain people.
--:-- Host: Now, have you heard of The Incredible Journey? It's a story about three animals who find their way home through the wilderness of North America.
--:-- Sophie Smith: Well, one cat has done it in real life. Rainbow apparently travelled more than 1,000 kilometres from the state of Wyoming back to California, a trip that took two months.
--:-- Alan Kialana: I commandeered a boat and eventually found the boy who become separated from his group door on the boat and I was like, hey, come to me and give me your hand.
--:-- Host: A lifeguard in the US has been describing how he was overcome with emotion when he managed to rescue a teenager lost at sea for nearly 12 hours.
--:-- Joy France: I just hit a point where I just thought, my life is so boring. It was so predictable. And it was like, is this it?
--:-- Host: After a long career as a teacher, as she approached the age of 50, she felt she needed to shake things up.
--:-- Joy France: I think it's just realising the power of words, and poetry in particular, and the level of connection you can make with people.
--:-- Host: She's been talking to my colleague Mobin Azhar.
--:-- Mobin Azhar: I think it's just realising the power of words, and poetry in particular, and the level of connection you can make with people.
--:-- Joy France: But it was quite cathartic for me to say some of the things that have, emotions I've had, people I've known, and things like that, and being able to put them out there and to resonate with other people.
--:-- Host: It's a beautiful thing.
--:-- Joy France: We were meant to grow all together, disgracefully. Do wheelchair wheelies down care home corridors, fill baths with bubbles or jelly. But you went and died.
--:-- Joy France: I want to see whether I could step into that world and survive it, hold my own and show them that, you know, just because I'm older and got white hair and everything, I can give them a run for the money.
--:-- Joy France: Were you scared? Yes. Anybody stepping into that world and doing a battle, if you're not scared, there's something wrong with you.
--:-- Joy France: On the left, I'm from Manchester. Yes, Joyce! She's a semi-famous spoken word poet. Yes, Joyce! She's 61 years old. Yes, Joyce! Take some noise for the Joyfres!
--:-- Joy France: I checked you out. And I thought the video was buffering, but no, it was you freezing and stuttering. You were mumbling. You were utterly bad. You were lame. You looked like a character in a Sims game.
--:-- Joy France: if you think joe france won make some noise now enjoy you you win in that moment what is going through your mind it's crazy what happened to that little girl who wouldn't say boo to a goose the crowd is shouting it's thinking oh we love you joe france we do and I'm like, what?
--:-- Joy France: Yeah, it was unreal. It was surreal. It was, yeah.
--:-- Host: And that is all from the Happy Pod for now.
--:-- Oliver Conway: If, like Joy, you've changed your life and taken on an unusual new role or hobby, we'd like to hear from you.
--:-- Oliver Conway: The address, globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Asma Khalid: This edition was mixed by Abby Wilshire and produced by Holly Gibbs and Rachel Bolkley.
--:-- Tristan Redman: Our editors, Karen Martin.
--:-- Oliver Conway: 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.
--:-- Tristan Redman: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC. I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is The Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.
--:-- Host: Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
