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Happy News: The Happy Pod: The opera singing rescue dog

26/05/2024 GMT

The Happy Pod: The opera singing rescue dog

BBC World Service - Happy News, The Happy Pod: The opera singing rescue dog

Meet Georgia, the opera- singing greyhound, the oldest person to go to space and more

Meet Georgia, the opera- singing rescue greyhound. Plus, Ed Dwight becomes the oldest person to go to space at 90. And the future of space travel designed by children.

We meet Georgia, the six-year-old singing greyhound, who was rescued from a life of racing by a family in Perth, Australia. She sings whilst her human 'big sister' plays the piano, and can even take on opera. She was adopted by the Albrow family three years ago, after she sustained an injury.

Decades after training, Ed Dwight becomes the oldest person to go to space at 90 years old. Meanwhile the spaceships of the future, imagined by children from around the world, have been flying over New York.

Also, we meet the man who spent 12 years fighting to save a forest from mining - and won. And, after seagull boy and lion girl - goat woman.

Presenter: Vanessa Heaney 
Music composed by Iona Hampson

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