--:-- 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. 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. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Alex Redson: Hello, this is Cliff Redford. I'm a veterinarian who travels around the world to help people and animals in need. And you're listening to The Happy Pod on the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Redson. And in this edition, the vet who's found fulfillment offering his life-saving skills for free around the world.
--:-- Cliff Redford: These trips make me a better person. They make me a better father. It just teaches me to love life and to love people from different walks of life.
--:-- Alex Redson: Why a man in his 80s has opened his home to vulnerable children through foster care. It's partly selfish. It keeps me, you know, I lost my wife about five or six years ago and can be pretty lonely once you're on your own. and I wanted to do something other than just sit and watch television.
--:-- Nigel: And it suddenly came to me that that was perhaps the thing to do, or anything I could try to do. It helps to keep me young, it gives me an interest. And it's really, you know, when I took my latest foster child, I mean, we were virtually on a sort of probationary period with each other for three months.
--:-- Alex Redson: I'm Alex Redson. And in this edition, the vet who's found fulfillment offering his life-saving skills for free around the world. These trips make me a better person. They make me a better father. It just teaches me to love life and to love people from different walks of life.
--:-- Cliff Redford: The reality is the first trip to Jamaica, although it was a three-week volunteer trip, there were some other motives. I was going to film my adventures to actually pitch a docuseries idea. Very, very quickly, my interest for filming and for this telling of these stories took a backstep to the volunteer work because I realized how fulfilling it was for me.
--:-- Alex Redson: Indian fans of some of the world's biggest music stars are looking forward to a record-breaking year of live shows. Ed Sheeran, whose rare Bhutan concert we heard about in the last episode, is due to play his biggest ever series of shows in India later this year.
--:-- Manish Pandey: To have that experience in our own country is, I don't think, something that we had. So it's been really cool to see that it's happening more and more.
--:-- Anushka Maske: Hello, I am Anushka Maske. I've been making music since 2020. Anushka feels big artists coming to India provides a chance for independent ones like her.
--:-- Frizzel D'Souza: Hi, I'm Frizzel D'Souza. I'm a singer. I've been following Ed Sheeran for the longest time because he's one of my earliest songwriter heroes.
--:-- Peony: We are a country with more than 1.5 billion people, so there's definitely people who are longing to hear these artists. Peony is a music journalist and thinks artists see an opportunity to grow their own brand through India's large population.
--:-- Alex Redson: You might have heard the very good news this week about some teeny tiny creatures on the verge of extinction. This is the call of Darwin's frogs native to Chile which are endangered because of a deadly fungus.
--:-- Ben Tapley: It was one of the best feelings ever. It was one of my career highlights. I mean, we knew the males were pregnant, And actually seeing these tiny, tiny little frogs hopping around was just so heartwarming.
--:-- Alex Redson: A pub landlady has accidentally become known around the world after a free drinks offer led to rather more giveaways than she'd planned.
--:-- Becky Webster: So we posted it about 40 minutes before the game started. We only recently got the channels to be able to play the Nottingham Forest games. so we wanted to make sure we got it out there so that everybody knew that we had it on so I just thought let's do a crazy offer and see what happens not expecting it to blow up like it has and definitely not expecting them to score seven goals one and two I was quite happy with I said at least their customers will be happy they're getting a few pints and then I think by half time I was starting to sweat a little bit it was between elation and dread then by five I think I was just praying for the final whistle
--:-- Alex Redson: Just before we go, we've been asking you to share the best advice you ever received from a grandparent. And Betsy from Madison in Wisconsin sent us a voice note.
--:-- Betsy: My homogalician grandmother had wise advice regarding money. Prestado es prestado, regalado es regalado y business es business. It translates well. Loaned is loaned, gifted is gifted, and business is business.
--:-- 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. I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. 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. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
