The Happy Pod: Creating 'Christina's Corner'

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Speaker 11 This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

Speaker 11 Hello, it's Alan Smith here and welcome to half an hour or so of uplifting stories from around the world. In this edition, we hear about Christina's corner.

Speaker 12 When they treat people like my daughter,

Speaker 12 I mean they see them as a human. Now there's a special place for them in heaven, you know.

Speaker 11 A special place in a convenience store in a small town in Idaho. There's the millions of people tuning in to watch the moose migration in northern Sweden.

Speaker 12 I like everything about it.

Speaker 13 The sounds, the pictures,

Speaker 13 the tranquility.

Speaker 13 You just

Speaker 13 be there.

Speaker 11 Plus.

Speaker 14 I just thought, what a wonderful little snapshot. Of course we've got recordings of famous people royalty, or politicians from the era, but very rarely people who are just on their holiday.

Speaker 11 A 70-year-old voicemail which has been reunited with the woman who recorded it.

Speaker 3 And.

Speaker 15 When we are starting the program,

Speaker 15 the first sessions they don't know each other.

Speaker 15 They are not confident with the group, and also they are not really sure

Speaker 15 they are going to feel comfortable.

Speaker 11 How rowing is helping refugees feel part of their new community.

Speaker 11 We're going to start in the small U.S. town of Pocatello in Idaho with a story about kindness.

Speaker 11 Dave Croening ran the last video rental store in town until he just couldn't carry on due to falling profits.

Speaker 11 But for almost every day for decades, he was visited by his most loyal customer, Christina.

Speaker 11 For Christina, picking out a film was an integral part of her day, and Dave was determined for her to carry this on despite his store closing.

Speaker 11 The Happy Pods Harry Bly has been speaking to Dave and Christina's mother, Tony.

Speaker 12 My name is Tony Cavanaugh, and my daughter is Christina. She is almost 36.

Speaker 6 For more than 20 years, Tony and her daughter, Christina, have visited their local video rental store almost every day at 3:30 in the afternoon to pick up two of Christina's favourite movies.

Speaker 12 It's part of just, you know, the fabric of her life. It's woven in.

Speaker 6 Christina has Down syndrome and is mostly non-verbal. Tony says going to the video store is an important part of her daily routine.

Speaker 12 I mean, I have a cabinet full of videos,

Speaker 12 but, and they are those videos, the same movies that she goes and rents. So it's going to rent the movies that she loves.

Speaker 6 Nowadays, for many, video rental stores are a distant but fond memory. Since the mid-2000s, as streaming services became mainstream, most stores have closed.

Speaker 6 And last year, Christina's favorite video store began to struggle. Dave Kroening is the store owner.

Speaker 16 Yard costs were going up, but the revenue was going down.

Speaker 16 And it just kind of got to the point where I just felt that just maintaining the video store wasn't feasible.

Speaker 12 The people that worked there were warning me that eventually, you know, they didn't know when, but things were just not looking good because I can't explain it to her. And Dave knew that too.

Speaker 12 And that was

Speaker 12 his

Speaker 12 concern.

Speaker 6 Dave kept the store going as long as he could.

Speaker 12 Well, he let it go on, you know, the loss of revenue because of her. So then, you know.
it happened the hammer came down and it was like oh no

Speaker 6 but when it came time to close the video store dave came up with a solution to create Christina's corner in the neighboring convenience store, which he also owns.

Speaker 16 So I thought, well, I could build just this version of this corner of the store that looks like the video store, put her favorite movies in there, and then just kind of create a snapshot, I guess, of what

Speaker 16 our video store was at the time we locked her up.

Speaker 12 I explained it at one point. It was like having a prison sentence lifted and the way he's got it set up now i think she'll be able to do it as long as he's the owner

Speaker 16 truthfully when i i did this you know i was just doing something nice for just a customer that's been loyal just for for decades.

Speaker 16 You know, I was just doing it to help a mother out and her daughter that was, you know, wasn't wasn't born with the same faculties as you and me.

Speaker 16 And, you know, I thought, you know, what if the shoes were on the other foot? And I thought, you know, I can help this one person out and make their life a little bit

Speaker 16 easier.

Speaker 12 I went to thank him and

Speaker 12 no words came. I just burst into tears.
So about a week or two later, I saw him and I said, promise not to cry.

Speaker 12 And I, you know, I thanked him then with words.

Speaker 12 You know, it just

Speaker 12 when they treat people like my daughter, I mean, they see them as a human

Speaker 12 and

Speaker 12 they're willing to go the extra mile, you know,

Speaker 12 so many times.

Speaker 12 Yeah, there are a lot of good people and kind people,

Speaker 12 but they don't understand disabilities. They're afraid when they see people with disabilities.

Speaker 12 So

Speaker 12 when somebody steps out like that, it's

Speaker 12 there's a special place for them in heaven, you know?

Speaker 12 You know, people are always saying, it's everything

Speaker 12 to me.

Speaker 12 So I didn't want to use that phrase, but really, it is. It's everything.

Speaker 6 After Tony and I spoke, it approached 3.30 and was time for them to head over to Dave's store. Tony says she hopes their story will promote more love and kindness across the world.

Speaker 11 Tony Kavanaugh and Dave Craney were speaking to Harry Bly.

Speaker 11 And this story got us thinking: has somebody you know gone out of their way to change someone's life for the better? If so, we'd love to hear about it. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.

Speaker 11 Now on the happy pod, let's slow down.

Speaker 11 These sounds are from last year's moose migration in northern Sweden.

Speaker 11 It was broadcast by a team who've set up 30 cameras around the woods to capture the natural phenomenon of the animal, also known as the elk, moving across rivers and lakes to find greener pastures ready for summer.

Speaker 11 Well, now the team is rolling the cameras for another year. They'll stream live for 24 hours a day for about three weeks.

Speaker 11 9 million people tuned in last year, and judging by the global reaction after its first day, many millions more will be tuning in this year too.

Speaker 11 Ulla Maumgren is a fan of the show and one of its most avid watchers.

Speaker 12 I like everything about it.

Speaker 13 The sounds, the pictures,

Speaker 13 the tranquility.

Speaker 13 You just

Speaker 13 be there.

Speaker 13 I don't have to go out. I can't go out.

Speaker 13 So this is my connection with nature.

Speaker 13 I have been watching this for six years now.

Speaker 13 I am sickly and homebound, so this is my lifeline.

Speaker 11 Johan Erlag is the project manager and executive producer of the show. He spoke to the BBC's Luke Jones.

Speaker 7 I hoped that the Swedish people would love it, but I couldn't imagine that the whole world would be interested in this as well, so it's fantastic.

Speaker 18 Just Just explain what the program is. It's just a load of cameras, what, over the Swedish countryside, picking up moose as and when they wander past.

Speaker 7 Yeah, exactly. The moose migrate from their winter places to their summer pastures, and we are actually

Speaker 7 having 30 cameras in a small area where they are actually gonna cross and swim over a river.

Speaker 7 So it's a very unique and beautiful thing when you actually see these big animals walking down in the river and then suddenly the head appears with flapping ears and it's

Speaker 7 amazing.

Speaker 18 And is it constant moose or is it occasionally you know a view of a bit of stream or a bit of field where a moose has yet to arrive but we're keeping our eyes peeled just in case?

Speaker 7 I mean the the mooses migrate

Speaker 7 obviously this time of year,

Speaker 7 every year. It's about the same dates every year, but the spring is a bit earlier this year, so we had to start a week earlier.
But this is the very

Speaker 7 few weeks of the year where they migrate in big

Speaker 7 queues actually. So

Speaker 7 20, 30, yeah, traffic jam in the woods.

Speaker 18 And you must be very good at it now because you've done it a few years, is that right?

Speaker 7 Yeah, this is our seventh season, actually.

Speaker 18 And do you recognise the same moose coming back again? Are there other occurring characters and stars?

Speaker 7 Actually, we tried to see if we can recognize the stars, but we can't actually.

Speaker 7 Yeah, they look quite similar. The scientists are helping us, and there are obviously moose living in the area, but they also migrate for a few kilometers.

Speaker 11 Johan Erlag.

Speaker 11 Now, here's a question for you. Have you ever been been reunited with something that you thought you might have lost forever? Well, that's what happened to a British woman called Valerie Stannard.

Speaker 11 You see, 70 years ago, she recorded something called a voiceograph whilst she was traveling in New York. Decades later, she's been reunited with the disc that it was held on.

Speaker 11 Justin Dealey has been talking to Valerie to find out more.

Speaker 1 In 1955, Valerie from Welling Garden City was in New York and decided to send a message home using a voiceograph machine.

Speaker 1 Now, these recording booths were popular in the 40s and 50s, especially in America.

Speaker 1 Valerie went into a small booth, had only one minute to speak and the recording of her voice was pressed onto a vinyl disc. She then posted the voiceogram back to her family in Hertfordshire.

Speaker 1 And 70 years later, record dealer Joel Diath was going through some records and made an intriguing discovery.

Speaker 14 I was in a dusty old warehouse and I was going through some records and I saw this voiceogram and I just find them absolutely fascinating because as much as I'm a fan of rare records this is a complete one-off.

Speaker 14 So among it was not just the voiceogram but the envelope it came in and I thought oh I have to I have to not just listen to this. I have to do a bit of digging.

Speaker 14 I heard a very well-spoken young lady who was telling her parents about her trip to New York and I checked the day and it was 1955 so 70 years ago and I just thought what a wonderful little snapshot.

Speaker 14 Of course we've got recordings of famous people or royalty or politicians from the era but very rarely people who are just on their holiday.

Speaker 14 I just went onto Facebook and I found a Wellengarden City Facebook group as there's many and I just shared some details, shared some photos and said can anyone help I know the street name I know the surname and how fortunate for me some people got in touch.

Speaker 1 A neighbor of Valerie's family was able to tell Joel that Valerie had moved to Vancouver in Canada.

Speaker 1 She also had a daughter and finding out she was called Zoe, Joel was able to message her on social media.

Speaker 14 I thought it was going to be something spammy but I read it anyway.

Speaker 14 And I thought it was having rather a challenging day, and it was just such a little ray of sunshine in the middle of a bit of awfulness. And so I reached out, and it was really quite something.

Speaker 1 By this time, Joel had managed to get the recording digitized. It's 70 years old and not the clearest, but Valerie can be heard wishing her mum a happy birthday and that America is a wonderful place.

Speaker 20 We won't have to return robustly now. I'll keep them from the cops that's one past bed serving.

Speaker 1 Valerie was 20 years old when she made that recording. Now, aged 90, she was able to listen again to her younger self.
It was a little bit

Speaker 14 frightening.

Speaker 1 Do you actually remember going in to record that message at 20 years old or not?

Speaker 14 Well, I remember the couple of days I was in New York very, very clearly because such outstanding things happened to me.

Speaker 1 And Joel, you're the man who's worked very hard to make all of this happen. It was certainly worth it, wasn't it?

Speaker 14 I was just sort of sitting here feeling quite moved by the whole thing because when Vali recorded that 70 years ago, could Valier have imagined that 70 years later we'd be sitting here talking, meeting new people and because of some sort of voice postcard?

Speaker 14 I'm so glad that

Speaker 14 I reached out.

Speaker 1 And Zoe, as we've got Joel here, is there anything you'd like to say to Joel as well?

Speaker 14 Oh, thank you so much. This has just been a lovely thing.

Speaker 14 My husband and I are with a pipe band and in 2026 we are going to be traveling to Glasgow to see the world and we're planning to pop down to London and meet Joel in person.

Speaker 14 Well I thoroughly look forward to it. I don't think I've ever been to a pipe band gig before but I think the better first one to go to.

Speaker 11 That report was from Justin Dealy.

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Speaker 11 To southern Spain now and a project in the city of Seville, which is using rowing to help refugees feel part of their new community.

Speaker 11 Spain has seen an increase in people seeking asylum over the past few years due to conflicts and natural disasters and one group, the Seville Sports Marina, is inviting children and adults who've arrived in Spain to join in and be part of the boat crew.

Speaker 11 Craig Langren went to find out more.

Speaker 4 I arrive to a flurry of activity down by the riverside.

Speaker 4 A group of adults and children are dragging a large white rowing boat into the water.

Speaker 4 I'm here to meet Jose Vines, founder of a non-profit organization called Darcena de Portiva Sevilla, which runs programs to get people involved in sports.

Speaker 4 Jose tells me the project's called Crew Together and offers a six-week rowing course to refugees and asylum seekers.

Speaker 15 Lovely people will have to move to our city from different countries like Venezuela and Rocco and we want them to feel part of our society.

Speaker 15 And we learned to coordinate their movement and work as a team.

Speaker 4 I quickly settle in and become part of the crew.

Speaker 15 You want to see next to Ali?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 24 Alright, so I'm going to get in as well.

Speaker 4 We each grab one of the metal oars with a bright orange blade at the end. It was so tightly packed in that my knees knock against the person sitting next to me.

Speaker 3 I'm just in the boat.

Speaker 24 Just in the boat. I'm not sure how helpful I'm being really.

Speaker 4 I'm seeking solace in the fact that I'm balancing out the boat at the back.

Speaker 4 We head further out into the middle of the Guadalquivir River.

Speaker 4 Whilst it's wide, there isn't a strong current and the calm blue water shimmers in the early evening sun as we make our way down the river, passing parks, office buildings and cyclists on the footpath.

Speaker 4 After about an hour or so of rowing up and down the river, singing, the sun begins to set and we make our way back to shore.

Speaker 4 Everyone gets out and helps to pull the boat up the slipway and back into the nearby boathouse.

Speaker 24 It's a big effort.

Speaker 24 It's a big

Speaker 24 200 kilos. Wow, it's a big.

Speaker 24 It's a big old thing, this boat.

Speaker 4 Jose tells me they put on a weekly session for 50 people. That's 10 each every day from Monday to Friday.
He says that they have a sports coach to teach the students how to row.

Speaker 4 And there's also someone called a social educator. Now, their role is to create games and activities to encourage the groups to talk.
An important part of all of this, as Jose explained.

Speaker 15 Many refugees don't have friends or family here, so this project helped them feel part of the community. When we are starting the program, the first sessions they don't know each other.

Speaker 15 They are not confident with the group, and also they are not really sure

Speaker 15 they are gonna feel comfortable growing on the river.

Speaker 15 But it's great to see them after two, three sessions when they know each other better and they connect and they join the games and the play that we are proposing and they are laughing and they are getting better.

Speaker 15 Some stay in touch after the course and also we try to connect them with employers.

Speaker 11 Jose Vines ending that report by Craig Langren in Seville. And for more stories like this, listen to People Fixing the World, wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 11 Now we have a story about a public artwork featuring life-size puppet animals traveling across Africa from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Speaker 11 The group, including the puppeteers, will follow a 20,000-kilometer route from the Congo Basin, traveling through Lagos and Dakar later this month, before moving through Morocco and then into Europe through Spain, France, Italy, the UK, Denmark, and Sweden, all the way up to the Arctic Circle.

Speaker 11 This is their promotional video. It's about raising awareness of what they describe as their flight from climate disaster.

Speaker 11 The artistic director, Amir Nizar Zuwabi, has been speaking to Julian Warwicker.

Speaker 26 Yeah, it is an ambitious project, but we're facing a massive problem. And maybe by doing massive feats, we can try and address this problem that is on everybody's doorstep.

Speaker 26 It's everywhere all at once. It's been, you know, climate crisis is a new, of course, right now with world politics

Speaker 26 being what they are. It's being pushed aside.
So our project has become more acute.

Speaker 26 And we want to raise a conversation. We want to raise a different way of talking about climate.

Speaker 26 We want to bring it to where we feel safe, to the doorsteps of our cities, so people

Speaker 26 can get inspired again by nature, by the beauty of nature.

Speaker 16 Well, the artwork artwork is called the herds. They're a group of life-size puppet animals which will first emerge onto the banks of the Congo River.

Speaker 16 And then you've got this enormous journey to undertake. How practically do you do that?

Speaker 26 With a lot of patience, with flexibility and with knowing that a lot of things will go wrong, but basically we're working with a lot of local artists and local groups along the route.

Speaker 26 So this is in many ways a global project that is rooted in local collaborations in all of the cities that we walk through. It's not a touring production.

Speaker 26 It's a production that is recreated in every city, organically co-created with artists in the city, and is reliant heavily on local knowledge and

Speaker 26 on local participation.

Speaker 26 The number of the animals,

Speaker 26 the size of the herd changes from city to city, but we rely heavily on local participants that come and work with us, and they become the herds in their city. So

Speaker 26 it's a civic act that invites people to take part of a climate action.

Speaker 16 And at the end of it, when it finishes, what do you hope you will have achieved?

Speaker 26 You know, we are theater makers, first and foremost. We're not politicians, thank God.

Speaker 26 And what I mainly hope to achieve, what we hope to achieve is to

Speaker 26 touch the heart. I think that

Speaker 26 people are affected and take action when they're moved by something, when they fall in love with something, when something becomes precious and they care about it.

Speaker 26 Obviously the science around climate has been around, we all know it, we all understand it,

Speaker 26 except the people in power that deny it.

Speaker 26 But we also think there's another aspect of this discussion that we need to engage with, which is an emotional aspect that is very important and that's what we hope to achieve.

Speaker 26 We're trying to create an immersive, visceral experience for people to reignite something, to crack in difference.

Speaker 11 Amir Nizar Zouabi, the artistic director of The Herds.

Speaker 11 Now, to finish, we have a story to gladden the heart. Two couples who married in the same venue on the same day 70 years ago have just marked their platinum anniversaries together.

Speaker 11 Tommy and Thelma Budge had a joint wedding with Tommy's sister Violet and Leslie Flett on the 9th of April 1955 in the Scottish archipelago of Orkney. David Delday joined the anniversary celebrations.

Speaker 19 The beginning of April 70 years ago, a resignation from the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and this song by Tennessee Ernie Ford, top of the charts.

Speaker 19 Give me your word,

Speaker 19 your love will never

Speaker 19 die.

Speaker 19 Perhaps those words had been swirling in the heads of Tommy Budge and Leslie Flayt.

Speaker 19 Thelma and Violet did give them their word, and soon after the four were in the Kirkwill Registrar's office tying the knot. Thelma explains how the joint wedding came about.

Speaker 17 Violet was planning to get married later that year.

Speaker 17 Tommy had to go for his national service and he was away, still at the first stages of it, and he couldn't get home twice, so the only time that it would all work

Speaker 17 out was on that particular day. And he got home on the Friday night, I think.
We married on Saturday and he's away on Monday morning.

Speaker 19 It's a day they all still remember vividly. After the ceremony, they headed to Laislie's parents' house, where Violet had a first encounter with a particular kind of drink.

Speaker 21 It was a bottle of champagne that Balreid had got, and he gave it to us, and I said it was the first time that I ever tasted champagne, and the last time.

Speaker 22 Oh, I did not like it. Wasn't my cup of tea at Harry.

Speaker 19 In what really is a true love story, three of the four had all grown up and gone to school together in the parish of South Ronaldsey.

Speaker 19 So the natural place to go was back to brother and sister Tommy and Violet's parents' home. Up to 30 folk crammed in the house for a homemade meal of chicken and tattoos.

Speaker 19 Work commitments meant that both couples didn't always see as much of each other as they might have liked. But Violet jokes that might have been part of the secret to their success.

Speaker 21 I worked at nights.

Speaker 21 I was home during the day and I was out every night. And my man worked during the day and he was home every night.

Speaker 22 That was the secret.

Speaker 19 To avoid each other.

Speaker 3 Yes, to avoid each other.

Speaker 25 Yes, that was the secret.

Speaker 19 Now you may have noticed we've heard quite quite a lot from Violet and Thelma, and a bit less from Tommy and Leslie. The designated spokesperson approach, another part of the winning formula.

Speaker 19 Both couples are looking forward to spending the day with their Burns, Granburns, and Great Granburns.

Speaker 17 What's a day I thought I'd never ever reach? It's just beyond anybody's expectations, I think. Especially if all four of us still here and able to take part.

Speaker 17 It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 19 Violet's advice for married life is simple.

Speaker 25 Just tack each day as it comes.

Speaker 21 That's all I can say.

Speaker 25 Just tack each day as it comes.

Speaker 11 That report was from David Delday.

Speaker 11 And that's all from the Happy Pod for now. Remember, if you've any stories of kindness, maybe someone you know has gone out of their way to change a person's life for the better, do email us.

Speaker 11 The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.

Speaker 11 And you can now watch some of our interviews on YouTube just search for the happy pod. This edition was produced by Holly Gibbs and Harry Bly.
It was mixed by Craig Kingham.

Speaker 11 And the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alan Smith.
So until next time, it's goodbye.

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