The Happy Pod: The joy of chasing a giant cheese

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  You're listening to The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

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  Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, and in this edition...

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  It's legendary.

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  It's about life, about life as a whole, you know.

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  Cheese is life.

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  I find out why the ancient sport of cheese rolling is so popular.

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  The man who saved a stranger's life gets a special visit.

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  When an email popped in, it was like all my Christmases,

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  quite seriously, had come at once.

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  It was a beautiful moment.

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  And it said, dear donor, thank you so much for the gift of your stem cells.

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  The creator of a therapy project which has spread across the globe.

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  Over 300,000 people sat on a friendship bench to talk to one of our grandmothers,

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  and 80% of them... found it meaningful and got an improvement in their mental well-being.

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  And...

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  The nun who's taken the internet by storm with her beatboxing.

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  We start in southwest England, where I went to watch the ancient sport of cheese rolling.

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  The annual event sees people throw themselves down an incredibly steep hill after a three kilogram wheel of double Gloucester.

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  The cheese, which can reach speeds of up to 100 kilometers an hour,

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  is won by whoever gets to the bottom first.

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