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The Happy Pod: The rescued Ukraine lions learning to roar again
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Nick Miles
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Bridget
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Nick Miles
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Bridget
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Nick Miles
This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in this edition, from a war zone to a new sanctuary.
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Cam Whitnell
Literally, the world came together to give these lions a better life. So thank you, because without that, they wouldn't be in beautiful areas where they're able to run on grass for the first time.
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Nick Miles
The lions rescued from Ukraine settle into their new home. Also, the man who's completed a marathon after being told he'd never walk again.
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Darren Awal
Just keep going, you know, even though we had limitations, you can really get through it if you want to. You've got to keep turning up for your life every single day. Just keep showing up for yourself.
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Nick Miles
The youngest ever player to score a century in T20 cricket and a centenarian who's become TikTok's latest influencer.
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Bridget
I'm so proud of her.
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Nick Miles
She's amazing.
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Bridget
How many today? Oh, I think there was nearly 200,000. I've got nothing better to do. Man, you're beautiful.
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Nick Miles
Five lions that were rescued from Ukraine have been settling into their forever home, with some of them touching grass for the first time. One abandoned lioness was found by chance by people looking for survivors of a bombing. Trapped in a cage and suffering from shell shock, they now live in a bespoke enclosure in Kent in southern England, full of trees, wooden platforms and features. And after months of silence, they have even started doing that once again. Stephanie Prentice spoke to Cam Whitnell, who's in charge of the big cat sanctuary that organized the lion's rescue. He told her about watching the first big cat to step into its new home.
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Cam Whitnell
I broke down in tears. It was like a huge moment, a year in the making, of getting these lions out of the war and knowing their backgrounds and what they've been through, to then see them step on grass for the first time here at the sanctuary, it was just like all the relief, all the stress had just, like, gone away. And it was just like. It was just beautiful. It was easily like the best day of my life.
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Bridget
And you mentioned they'd been through a lot. Can you tell us a little bit about. About what these lines survived and how they're now settling into their new environment?
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Cam Whitnell
Yeah, they have been through a lot, all five. So little Vanda, she was rescued from a flat. She had parasites. She was malnourished. She'd never seen. Never seen sunlight before or been outside. You had Yuna, she was suffering from shell shock and concussion. She could hardly walk or stand. And that shell shock and concussion came from bombings that fell right by her area. And she'd never been on grass before in her life. She'd been in a 4x4 concrete cell. And then given that going through a war in their country, which none of them chose to be in, they had no idea what had kind of hit them. To now being at the beautiful sanctuary in Kent in lovely sunshine, and they've got these lovely areas which have been designed specifically to suit their needs. One of them's got a waterfall feature and a nice pond area. That's for Vanda. So she'll sit on the rocks just above the waterfall and soak up the sun.
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Bridget
And as you've obviously seen them up close, overcoming the trauma they've been through, are they now exhibiting more playful behaviors? Have you seen any more, like, classic cat behaviors from them?
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Cam Whitnell
Yes, they're all mischievous and cheeky. Honestly, they have settled in so incredibly well. It's just beautiful to see Rory here. He's just displaying. Amazing. He's roaring now, which is lovely. He's got an incredible roar. He's very interested in three of the girls, Amani, Lira and Yuna. So he's cooling, communicating, rubbing up against the fence with them. And then Yuna, she's running around, bearing in mind over a Year ago, just over a year ago, she could barely walk. Now she's running and being really playful. She's actually flirting with Rory quite a bit. She's rolling over, being submissive. It's like the best thing ever.
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Bridget
So Rory has reclaimed his raw and he's found potential love interests.
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Cam Whitnell
Yeah. So he is truly the king of Kent right now. I mean, he's a. He's a beautiful lion. He's got an incredible thick mane which goes right under his belly and even down his legs. So he's lovely. And, yeah, his new, new love interest is Yuna, which I'm a little bit sad about, because before Rory was here, Yuna and I had that relationship. You know, she was. She was. She was my girl, but Rory's kind of stole her from me. But as long as they're happy.
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Bridget
And I understand this rescue was quite a monumental task. It was very expensive, and some of that was crowdfunded. What would be your warm message to anyone that had given a donation to help get these lions to safety?
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Cam Whitnell
Thank you and we love you. Fundraising. Half a million pounds is a lot. It's a huge, huge effort. Like, we got amazing response from not just here in the uk, but around the world. You know, we had people from Australia, North America, South America, Japan and Asia. It's really been a worldwide effort to kind of support our mission and the cause. And we all came together, like, literally the world came together to give these lines about life. So thank you. Because without that, they wouldn't be in beautiful areas where they're able to run on grass for the first time in their life and kind of try and live life the rest of their life, as a lion would.
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Nick Miles
That was Cam Whitnell. Over the past few weeks, people around the world have been taking on the challenge of running marathons. From Boston to London, participants have had many reasons to get out and run 26.2 miles or just over 42 kilometers. And our next guest definitely had something to prove. Darren Awol was paralyzed from the waist down 14 years ago. He was the victim of a random shooting and he was told he would never walk again. He's now an adaptive fitness coach and completed the London Marathon in just over six hours. He's been speaking to the happy pods. Holly Gibbs.
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Darren Awal
It just felt like someone clicked their fingers and said, you're never going to walk again. That was all that was on repeat in my head, that you're never going to walk again. You have a spinal cord injury and this is it for you. And when. I mean, just Walking also that you've also lost your functions, like your bladder and your bowels as well. It was heartbreaking because at the time, my son was two and a half. I felt like I'd done something wrong. Like I, I did. I deserve this, you know, Like, I haven't done nothing wrong. I was robbed. I'll be honest with you. I hit a very, very dark place.
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Bridget
What did you tell yourself on your hardest days? How did you motivate yourself to keep pushing?
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Darren Awal
The only reason I can say I carried on to get this far is because even though there's always a 1% glimmer that what if. What if I do walk again? Even though I've been told by professionals what if I do walk? I built this resilience. I spent two and a half years in hospital being paralyzed from your waist down. Saying this was like wishing for a miracle, you know, and wait for it to happen. I needed someone to speak to, like myself to get me through this injury. But I had no one. So I thought, I need to be the person that I need. Because at that time, there's no such thing as really talked about as mental health. Men that feel low. There's not this kind of stuff that was Talked about in 2011.
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Bridget
Talk to me about your recovery. So what did you do? And can you now walk freely? I mean, I know you've just run a marathon, but talk to me about what, what your movement is like now.
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Darren Awal
I'm still paralyzed on my left side. From my glute all the way down to my feet. I'm paralyzed. I have motory but no sensory. So it moves, but it's not. There's no sensory. Like I can't feel hot and cold on it. But I'm determined, you know, Like, I get up, I have to stretch, I stand on my elbow crutches. And then you wear these little splints that go around your, like from the bottom of your foot to your calf.
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Bridget
Talk to me about the London Marathon. Why did you want to take on such a challenge?
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Darren Awal
I wanted to prove to myself and to the world that no matter what cards you're dealt with, it's your mind. Your physical is, is always going to be there. But you have to have your mental in touch every day just as a normal human being with no injury or nothing. We've all got stuff going on in our life, and I think the quicker we face stuff mentally, the better we can get through things physically. Your mind arrives at your destination before you do.
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Bridget
And Darren, how did it go? How did Running the marathon go phenomenal.
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Darren Awal
So I've done a breakdown. So I started off walking, then I'll get in a wheelchair and push. Then I'd get off and start walking. And then that, that was the program. And I walked through the finish line, which was amazing as well. The crowds are magnificent. The. The crowds of people that go you on, even the runners, they. They're going through it and they're patting you on your back, and you're patting them back on their back and you know they're shouting your name. You're shouting their name. I got to kilometer 39. I'm wheeling, wheeling, wheeling. And I look around now. My brother and my physio are there, but I look around and they seem not to be there. But the crowds are shouting, but I can't hear a word coming out. And my arms are hurting. I've got blisters all across my left hand. And I'm just thinking, let me just get through this, please. Please let me just do this now. I don't wanna. I'm only 4 or 5 kilometers away from the finish line now.
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Bridget
And what time did you do it in?
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Darren Awal
6 hours, 35 minutes.
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Bridget
Wow, what an achievement.
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Darren Awal
No, it's phenomenal. Like, I can't tell you the day, the people, the atmosphere, you know, and just like I said, like, everyone just leaving everything there, you know, a lot of people do the marathon for various reasons, and I respect everyone's reason, you know?
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Bridget
And Darren, what is your message to other people that might find themselves in a similar situation to you? How would you inspire them?
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Darren Awal
My message to everyone is, if you haven't got arms, use your legs. You haven't got legs, use your arms. So what I mean by this is don't overthink it. Just keep going, you know, Even though we had limitations, use the stuff that we got around us and just. You can push through it, you know, like, you can really get through it if you want to. You've got to keep turning up for your life every single day. The best thing you can do in life is like show up. Just keep showing up for yourself.
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Nick Miles
Darren Awal talking to Holly Gibbs Tumultu now. And a family for whom spring brings with it a special aroma. The sweet scent of orange blossom mixed with the smoke of burning wood. The Bayadas are one of the last families making orange blossom water using a traditional method passed down from generation to generation for over a century. Josef Kutaiya went to meet them.
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Lawrence Baiada
For one family on Gozo, Malta's younger sister island, spring isn't for cleaning, but it's for orange blossom water. Lawrence Baiada, who's 57, and his 8 year old mother, Maria Sunta, are among the last remaining people in the country who still make orange blossom water. The water is a clear, fragrant distillation of the fresh leaves and flowers of the bitter orange tree. Traditionally, people use it either as a secret ingredient when making sweets added to their coffee or as an antidote for an upset stomach. In the northern Maltese village of Shara, the Bayad family have been distilling this water by hand for over 100 years. I went to see the distillation process to watch it up close as I was shown into their garden, an oasis of bitter orange trees. Maria Sunta told me that some of the trees were older than she was.
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Bridget
I've planted all of this. I've always planting new trees. Look, Lawrence, that one's eight years old. My husband first taught me this process because the tradition came from his side of the family. I used to help my husband, and when he fell ill, I started to make it myself. And then I taught my son how to make it.
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Lawrence Baiada
When spring comes, Lawrence and his mother collect the flowers and the leaves packed tightly in a metal barrel, which is then filled with water up to a quarter of its volume. Once that's done, the barrel is put over a low wood fire. When the water boils, a metal cap with two spouts is placed on top of the distiller to help the steam to condense. The water then trickles from one of the spouts and is collected in glass bottles. This process is repeated for eight hours. The steamed water is sealed in wooden barrels like those used for wine and stored for at least a year. There's not a single instrument used in the whole process, not even a thermometer. And yet everything runs like clockwork. The distillers, the tools, everything that has been handed down from generation to generation. Lawrence has been offered the chance to modernize, but he insists on using the same method. Going back hundred years.
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Nick Miles
A lot of people have urged me to modernize, but I told them if I don't do it my way, the traditional way, I'll stop producing. It's because this is how I've been taught. Otherwise the orange blossom water won't come out as good as it used to in the past.
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Lawrence Baiada
When the short season is over, nothing is wasted. The steamed leaves are turned into compost, the water used for cooling is stored and reused. The oranges from the same trees are turned into jam, and the storage bags are saved for next year. But the future is uncertain because after Lawrence, no one seems to be interested in taking up this craft. Lawrence's however, focused on the present.
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Nick Miles
While I'm still healthy, I'll keep producing this orange blossom water for sure. It's something I feel. I love making it and I look forward to these two months. It's a beautiful process and when I see everything functioning, I forget everything and stand in awe of how intelligent our ancestors were.
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Lawrence Baiada
I asked Maria Sunte whether she ever gets tired or fed up with this intense manual work. Cheekily, she answered, we're in our own place.
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Bridget
When we feel tired, we stop.
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Lawrence Baiada
Simple as that.
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Nick Miles
Maria Sunte ending that report from Josef Kutaia coming up in this podcast After.
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Bridget
A few months, I thought, there's no chance that he's going to survive this. They're a lot faster than people think and they're always testing boundaries. So I think they're a lot tougher than we give them credit for A.
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Nick Miles
Very unlikely runaway Reunited with his owner after nine months in the wild.
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Bridget
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Nick Miles
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Bridget
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Nick Miles
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Bridget
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Nick Miles
Now to a rather unusual robot that's offering blind people a new way to get around independently. Glide, as it's known, looks a bit like an upright vacuum cleaner with two wheels and a long handle, and steers the user away from any haz it detects with its 3D cameras. It aims to provide an alternative to white canes and guide dogs and will use AI to offer people more information about their surroundings. BBC Access all presenter Emma Tracey, who's blind, went to Los Angeles to find out more.
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Darren Awal
So Glide is the first of its kind autonomous mobility aid. We call it an intelligent guide.
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Bridget
This is Amos Miller. He's the inventor of Glide. And that's a new gadget that helps us get about. Amos himself is blind and he already uses the device every day.
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Darren Awal
The user holds the handle and begins to walk. And what happens when they begin to walk? The wheels steer the way.
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Bridget
I want to give it a go. So I take the device in one hand and Amos walks within touching distance of me using his cane. I'm a bit nervous.
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Darren Awal
I'm glad to hear that. Sorry. There we go.
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Bridget
Got a blind man with a cane.
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Darren Awal
Okay.
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Bridget
Helping a blind lady with a Glide. So shall I go?
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Darren Awal
Okay. Yep. So now we'll just go and let it do its thing. Now what you have to do is follow. You're doing great. Look at you.
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Bridget
You know that feeling when you're pushing a supermarket trolley and it has a wonky wheel and it suddenly swerves to the side? That's what this feels like. Glide does it to protect you, but it still feels a little unnerving when it happens. Why did it go over there?
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Cam Whitnell
I don't know.
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Darren Awal
I think there must be something in front of us.
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Bridget
Oh, so it just moved. It just. It just sort of.
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Darren Awal
So this is. Reacted to the environment. Now you do it yourself.
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Bridget
Okay.
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Darren Awal
Don't walk too fast.
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Bridget
It's very odd for me because I just feel like I've got the cordless vacuum out. But it's. But it's got a mind of its own. So it's just moved me around something. It's. Oh, I don't know. Am I doing this right? It's moved me around. I feel like I'm going around in circles now. Give me any new piece of tech and it's going to take me a while to get used to it. And sure enough, after another five minutes, my confidence is high. Dangerously high. What would happen if I ran or walked really quickly? Let's find out. Sorry, this is a little bit scary. I feel like I'm bringing. I'm pushing my kid in like a. In a wagon or something, and it's. The kid's got its feet on the floor and it's trying to show me where it's going next.
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Darren Awal
First of all, well done.
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Bridget
Thank you.
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Darren Awal
I think it was amazing to see even the progress in the last 10 minutes when you, when you've been using the device.
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Bridget
So, yeah, so I've been wandering around for ages, but I have no idea what I've done or where I've gone. It's been, I mean, it's been fun, but.
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Darren Awal
So one of the things that we're working on is what we call line of sight targeting where you can. Where Glide will detect potential targets in the environment, like the dropped curb, like the door to the store and things of that nature so that you can set those as destination.
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Bridget
When will we have that?
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Darren Awal
One step at a time.
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Bridget
In the future, Amos says I'll be able to talk to Glide and Glide will be able to talk back. Hey Glide, take me to the elevator. Hey Glide, take me to the nearest bus stop. With combinations of mapping data and routes saved by other users, it'll become easier for blind people to travel around new places. Before he set up his new company, Amos was a senior product strategist with Microsoft when they launched Soundscape, a celebrated navigation app for blind people. He's also been the chair of Guide Dogs uk. So if anyone can create a new way for blind people to get about, it's this guy. Maybe that's why lots of blind people have already pre ordered the Glide. Like Chris and Michaela. I got to walk with it last year and I was so thrilled, I almost cried. It was so emotional. Why? Why? Because just to be able to walk freely and not worry and not wonder if I was going to run into something and it's going to have the navigation mapping connected to it so you can just use the device and it's guiding you to where you're going and so you don't have to have your phone out listening to turn by turn direction, which can get distracting when you're traveling. So if you're just having a device that's kind of all in one, right, And I think it's really going to be a game changer for us.
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Nick Miles
And you can hear more about Glide and other technology helping those people who are blind and partially sighted on People Fixing the World wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Next to a player who's got Indian cricket fans very excited and he's only just turned 14. In April, Vaibhuv Soyavunshi became the youngest person to appear in an Indian Premier League match, having been signed at the end of last year. Now he's become the youngest player to hit a century in men's T20s. That's the shorter 20 overs. A side form of the game that's becoming increasingly popular around the world. Kulsum Hufferji reports.
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Bridget
Step forward. Vibhav Suryavanchi, the teenager became the youngest player to hit a century. That's 100 runs in a men's T20 game. Fair to say the crowd enjoyed it. He was bowled out one run later scoring 101 from just 38 balls and giving his side Rajasthan Royals an eight wicket win over Gujarat Titans. He became the youngest player to be signed by an IPL team when he was picked up at the auction after a bidding war last year. We knew what he's capable of and what kind of shots he can play. That's Vibhav's coach, Vikram. To do it in front of this kind of crowd and in a situation like this against a really, really good bowling attack, I think it was really special and a lot of credit to him.
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Cam Whitnell
This is Mohsin Kamal, a cricket journalist from Kashmir in India.
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Bridget
Anyone in India right now is talking about Vaibhav.
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Darren Awal
He comes from a small village in Bihar called Samastipur.
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Cam Whitnell
His parents had to sacrifice a lot to ensure Vaibhav plays at the highest level.
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Bridget
And in terms of his performance, what makes him so special and what makes him stand out from his other fellow players? Kulsim, the thing is that he's just 14 but the way the power he produces while hitting the ball is just amazing.
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Cam Whitnell
He scored runs everywhere.
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Darren Awal
It prompted IPL scouts to take a.
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Cam Whitnell
Look at him and in December he became the youngest player to get an IPL bid.
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Bridget
And Mohsen, you spoke to his coaches yesterday? Yes. What is next for him? See his coach tell me that he.
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Darren Awal
Is the kind of talent that could.
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Bridget
Be seen in an Indian class. Like he could be making his international.
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Cam Whitnell
Debut in one or two years.
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Bridget
But they all say that he needs.
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Darren Awal
To be taken care of.
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Cam Whitnell
It is very much possible that in.
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Darren Awal
Next one or two years we could see him playing for India.
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Nick Miles
That report was by Kolsam Hafaji. Now it's probably the last animal you might imagine could run away from home. But a 13 year old tortoise has only just been found. Nine months after escaping. Leonardo hadn't made it far though, turning up just a mile from his home in Cumbria in Northern England island. His owner is Rachel Etches.
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Bridget
He's never been out in the winter before. He's never hibernated. So after a few months I thought there's no chance that he's going to survive this. I took my eye off him in the garden. So it was entirely my fault. They're a lot faster than people think and they're always testing boundaries, so if there's a. If there's a gap in the fence, they'll find it. I think they're a lot tougher than we give them credit for. He's clearly found a nice place to hibernate and then as the weather's got warmer in the last few weeks, he's managed to wake himself up and then go on his adventure. I mean, he might have been hibernating right in my back garden and I just not found him. But we did comb the area very thoroughly, so I don't know the name of the man who found him, but it was a dog walker just walking in our little hamlet because they're quite a rare thing. He had phoned the local pet shop, Little Beasties, which is actually where Leonardo was purchased originally. Leonardo is microchipped. However, my details weren't up to date, so that was my fault. And it's a reminder to everyone to keep them up to date. But thankfully a lady had seen his missing post and had connected the dots and she got in touch with me. I was just in utter shock and my first thought was, well, surely he can't be in good health. But I was wrong and he was. He was absolutely fine. He's been inside for the past few days more so while he just, like, re acclimatizes. But we've bought him a nice garden enclosure now, so he will be able to join us again outside, but in a more secure setting.
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Nick Miles
Thank goodness for that. Rachel Etches. Now, when you hear the word influencer, you probably think of young people who spend a lot of time on social media. Well, Joan Partridge has just become one at the age of 103. A video of Joan giving makeup tips has racked up tens of thousands of views online and even landed her a role with a cosmetics company. Felicity Kvesic went to her care home in central England to meet her.
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Bridget
You've gone viral. 180,000 views of your video. Well, I'd love to wear a mask. Oh, my goodness. No, it isn't. And Lindsay, you. You work here at the care home. Can you tell us a little bit about how we got to the stage of Joan going viral? Yes. So We've done the TikTok video with Joan on her putting your rouge on, as you like to call it. Yeah. And she'd done it as a whole tutorial to teach people how to do it. And then from there Actually, the makeup that she was using, somebody had tagged the company in and said, look, she's using your makeup. And the company then got in touch with us, which was really nice to say how lovely it was to see Joan doing something like that. And they wanted to send the makeup out directly to Joan. They seen actually how widespread this was going. And we had 310 comments which included. Included sort of the younger generation and the older generation asking Joan to become a bit more of a tick tock sensation for them and to do more tutorials on how to do a makeup. And the company then got back in touch with us again and said, actually, we'd not only like to send your own makeup, but all the female residents in the home makeup as well. Just last week, wasn't it, Joan? This giant box of makeup came. Yeah, it's ever so nice. You've got 300. Oh, but are they all nice? They are, Joan. They're all beautiful. Beautiful comments from young girls and older ladies all saying how beautiful you are and how much they love your video and they'd like to see more. Oh, no, no, I'm too old to go to work. Hi there. My name is Nicola and I am Joan's granddaughter. Sir. Joan's got quite a few grandchildren. What do you say about you? I always say that I'm her favourite one. So we are talking about how Joan has gone viral. She has. Can anyone scarcely believe it? And I can't stop shouting about it because I'm so proud of her. She's amazing. How many today? Oh, I think there was nearly 200,000. If we got nothing better to do. Nan, you're beautiful. We are just blown away, like, wow. Like, we've been sharing the story, like, with friends and like, look at my nan. But we're all just like. We always expect the unexpected with my Nan. You've always got a face full of makeup. Yes, I have, yeah. I only use his job to use it so I don't waste it.
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Nick Miles
Joan Partridge. And that's all from the Happy Pod for now, but if you have a story you think we should cover, we'd love to hear from you. Just send us an email or a voice note to globalpodcastbc.co.uk and you can now watch some of our interviews on YouTube. Just search for the happy pot. This edition was mixed by Craig Kingham and producers were Holly Gibbs and Rachel Bulkley. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles. And until next time, goodbye.