2025-12-13
28 分钟This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
I'm Joanna Keane and in this edition...
Everybody needs a place to be needed.
I think they need identity.
They need a place.
They need a place to be himself or herself.
The cafe in Tokyo that allows people with dementia to volunteer as servers.
We meet the man whose life was saved by his dog.
Plus...
going from a place where you thought that you were never going to grow up.
The groundbreaking gene therapy which has helped people with previously incurable blood cancers.
The school in Kenya set up for dyslexic children and a camp for women in India who are going through divorce.
Trekking up the mountains or sitting by the beach,
listening to each other and playing games together,
dancing together and also listening to music together.
We start in Tokyo, where one small cafe has become famous for far more than its cakes and coffee.
At Orange Day Cafe, muddled orders,
long pauses and gentle confusion aren't mistakes, they're the point.
The monthly pop-up was created to give people living with dementia a place to volunteer,
and one of its best-known helpers is Toshio Morita,