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This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service.
I'm Uncle Desai and in this edition, learning what really matters the hard way.
I thought my only regret really
if I die up here is that I didn't spend more time with my wife and my family.
Life is so fragile and you've really got to appreciate the small things."
A hiker who nearly died in a fall on a glacier urges others not to repeat his mistakes.
Also, a surprising new source of fresh drinking water.
And a vaccine to protect one of Australia's best-loved animals against a disease that's threatening their survival.
Most of those populations have around 50% infection and disease rate.
That causes eye disease that can lead to blindness,
but of course the most important thing is in females where it makes them infertile.
And?
And I'm off to Listernvern at the end of the year.
I'm off for the bitter crack now, the girls and the beer.
I'm fairly shifty for a man of six.
The man helping couples find love at Europe's largest matchmaking festival.
We start with an amazing story of survival against the odds.
Just over a month ago,
Alec Lund was in Bergen in Norway when he decided to set off on a solo trek on a glacier in the Folgerfondern National Park.