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The Happy Pod: Lost my ring, found some friends
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Patrick Mohr thought his wedding ring was gone after it fell off his hand while he swam in Italy, but it led to an international friendship with three locals who dived to find it. Filippo Palagi, Nicola Malloggi and Edoardo Poggi went on a trip to return it to Patrick in Ireland. Also: the grandmother who competed at Miss Great Britain and made history in the process. Glamour Gran Ann wants other women to see that getting older does not mean disappearing. In Australia, the reporter who ended up saving a man's life while covering floods in...
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- 172 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 116 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service. I'm Holly Gibbs and in this edition... It was the gauntlet of emotion, you know, loss, disappointment, frustration, anger,
right through to kind of the magic part and then really the joy of friend building. I not only got the ring back but, you know, met these three lads. how one Irishman's lost wedding ring led to an international friendship. Also on this podcast, meet the grandmother who competed at Miss Great Britain.
71 is a need that can be tricky because Grandma Grand-Anne is all about doing things, but if I can, anyone can. Plus the reporter who saved a man from drowning. When we saw him floating away, we were sort of thinking,
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