The Happy Pod: Creating 'Christina's Corner'

快乐小窝:打造“克里斯蒂娜的角落”

Global News Podcast

新闻

2025-04-19

26 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

After Dave's video rental store was forced to close, he created a space for his most loyal customer, Christina, so she could stick to her vital daily routine. Also: why millions of people are tuning in to watch the moose migration and what's the secret to 70 years of marriage?
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service.

  • 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.

  • When they treat people like my daughter, I mean they see them as a human.

  • Now there's a special place for them in heaven, you know.

  • 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.

  • I like everything about it.

  • The sounds, the pictures, the tranquility.

  • You just be there.

  • Plus, I just thought, what a wonderful little snapshot.

  • Of course, we've got recordings of famous people,

  • world-teal politicians from the era, but very rarely people who are just on their holiday.

  • A 70-year-old voicemail which has been reunited with a woman who recorded it.

  • And when we are starting the program, the first sessions, they don't know each other.

  • They are not confident with the group and also they are not really sure they are going to feel comfortable.

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

  • We are going to start in the small US town of Pocatello in Idaho with a story about kindness.

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