2025-11-22
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This is the happy pod for the BBC World Service.
I'm Vanessa Heaney and in this edition...
I was crying, his mum was crying.
It was just lovely to see him so happy and healthy.
My tears could not stop.
I could not stop giving her a hug.
Yeah, he is an angel.
A woman who donated a kidney to a stranger has met the young boy whose life she saved.
A new technology could dramatically increase the number of available organ transplants.
The impact of this product is typically increasing the number of organs that are being transplanted,
something between 20 and 30%.
Also,
a media platform run by and for young people with disabilities that's hoping to challenge misconceptions.
Plus, a grand prix for cows and an unusual group of knitters.
It genuinely makes it easier to go through life having that thing to do with my hands.
And it has made it so much easier for me to connect with the society.
We start the program with a rare meeting between an organ donor and the young boy whose life she saved.
Allie Coyle had agreed to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger.
and she was matched with five-year-old Xavier.