The Happy Pod: Saving Thailand's street dogs

欢乐舱:拯救泰国的流浪狗

Global News Podcast

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2025-04-05

28 分钟
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Meet the man dedicating his life to helping thousands of stray dogs. Also: the childhood sweethearts who reunited after 85 years, and Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, playing college basketball with only one arm.
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  • This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Rachel Wright, and in this edition.

  • You're moving faster every day, Tom Cruise.

  • I can't keep up with you, mister.

  • You're a flying machine.

  • You're a flying machine.

  • Look at him go.

  • I meet this man, who's helped thousands of stray dogs in Thailand.

  • Two childhood sweethearts reunited after more than 85 years.

  • All these years passed, and then suddenly we got in touch again.

  • I looked at the text and I thought to myself like, history, what are you talking about?

  • And then that's when it clicked in my head for a second.

  • I was like, OK, maybe this is kind of a big deal.

  • An historic moment in college basketball.

  • Meet the first player with one arm to score during a game.

  • We begin with the story of a man in Thailand who's become an online celebrity after sharing his stories of the abandoned street dogs he's fed,

  • re-homed and treated.

  • Nile Harbison lives on the island of Kursamui in the Gulf of Thailand.

  • His story begins when he himself was in a bad place, recovering in hospital from alcohol poisoning.

  • He decided to turn his life around and began to befriend some of his friends.