Happy News Episodes Episode guide
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06/12/2025 GMT
Positive news stories
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29/11/2025 GMT
Positive news stories
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Happy News
Positive news stories
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Happy News
Positive news stories
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Happy News
Positive news stories
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The Happy Pod: Soldiers' letters from 1916 finally home
Notes from two Australian WW1 soldiers found on a beach and now back with their families (R)
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The Happy Pod: 'I'm blind but I can read a book again'
Doctors have used microchips to help blind patients regain the ability to read
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The Happy Pod: The healing power of singing
Women with post-natal depression saw lasting benefits from a singing group
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The Happy Pod: Love, cake, and a long-lost mother
A man's search for his birth mother led him back to his favourite local bakery
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The Happy Pod: The teenager empowering thousands to succeed
Young entrepreneur Adarsh Kumar provides training and mentoring across India
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The Happy Pod: Hope for people with Huntington's disease
The first ever treatment for Huntington's disease delights patients and scientists
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The Happy Pod: Nurse revives 'drunk' raccoon
A woman in Kentucky saved a baby raccoon who became 'drunk' on fermented fruit
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The Happy Pod: Escaping death on a glacier
Alec Luhn broke his leg and back in an accident and survived on a glacier for six days
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The Happy Pod: The 'game changing' test for ovarian cancer
Happy stories and positive news from around the world - our weekly collection
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The Happy Pod: Hugs from Texas
Happy stories and positive news from around the world - our weekly collection
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The Happy Pod: Letters from dad - with love
The Dad Letter Project sends handwritten notes of love and support around the world
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The Happy Pod: Mountaintop matchmaking
In the Swiss Alps, notebooks left in mountaintop letterboxes are being used to find love
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The Happy Pod: How baby showers saved a rare stork
How Purnima Devi Barman's Hargila Army helped save an endangered stork
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The Happy Pod: Learning begins with breakfast
The charity providing breakfast for three million children across 16 countries
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The Happy Pod: Performing on the street got me Oasis tickets
The street musician whose dream of seeing Oasis came true, thanks to a stranger
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The Happy Pod: The thrill of swimming the Arctic Circle
Meet the swimmers participating in this year's swim across the Arctic Circle
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The Happy Pod: The trio bringing countries together with music
The trio hoping to soothe tensions between China and the US through music collaboration
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The Happy Pod: The surgeon who left his wedding to save a life
How Dr Biruk Weyisha put his wedding on hold to perform emergency surgery
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The Happy Pod: A song fit for a King
We meet the young composer who was picked to write and perform a song for King Charles
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The Happy Pod: Sending my mother's ashes around the world
The woman fulfilling her mother's dreams of travel by putting her ashes out to sea
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The Happy Pod: The tiny dog back home after a big adventure
A Dachshund puppy who spent 529 days in the wild is returned to her overjoyed owners
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The Happy Pod: Rodent on the run returns
A giant rodent named Beanbag, or 'Doubao' in Chinese, has returned home after two months
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The Happy Pod: The joy of chasing a giant cheese
Why the English tradition of cheese rolling is gathering crowds from around the world
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The Happy Pod: The unlikely duo getting men talking about mental health
The man travelling the world with a cuddly duck to get others to open up
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The Happy Pod: Climbing a mountain 64 times to inspire others
Tania nearly died on Table Mountain but says The Happy Pod helped her fight
