The Happy Pod: Performing on the street got me Oasis tickets

快乐小窝:街头表演让我获得了绿洲乐队门票

Global News Podcast

2025-07-26

28 分钟
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The street musician whose dream of seeing Oasis came true, thanks to a stranger. He says people should never give up. Also: an amazing survival story; hope for better cancer treatment; and a very slow world championship.
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Alex Ritson and in this edition… Can you believe it?

  • A piece of cardboard I found in a roadside dumpster took me to the front row and I watched Oasis Live right in front of me.

  • The man who played music in the street until he fulfilled his dream of seeing his favourite band live.

  • The German backpacker rescued after two weeks lost in Western Australia's outback.

  • Just an amazing girl.

  • Desperation and true grit I think just got her through in the end.

  • Plus a new test that could ensure tens of thousands of people with breast cancer get better treatment.

  • If I can do it, you can do it too.

  • You don't have to do what you're told to do.

  • Yeah, it can be done even with difficult circumstances.

  • After a life-changing crash, one man finally achieves his goal of becoming a doctor.

  • We start with a busker or street musician from Japan who came to northern England with a dream of seeing his favourite band live.

  • That's Mireille Itau playing Don't Look Back in Anger in the middle of Manchester,

  • the home city of his favourite band Oasis.

  • Tickets for their highly anticipated tour went on sale last year.

  • When he didn't get one,

  • Mireille travelled from his home in Yokohama to busk hoping to raise enough for a ticket.

  • After weeks of performing to the public, his dream came true when he met a kind stranger.