Ankur Desai
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I feel really lucky to have gone home to my beautiful family myself.
And I feel so lucky to get to look at my best friend's beautiful family.
And I think that's just the wonderful thing.
If you can do that for someone or if you can do an act of kindness that, you know, really changes someone's life, then you should do it if you can.
Such a lovely, heartwarming story.
Daisy Hope and Georgia Barrington.
Now, the Alpine tradition of yodelling has long been dominated by men, whether as a centuries-old form of communication between herders, or more recently, a social activity with men gathering to belt out vocals from the hilltops with their friends.
Lyrics, when there were any, often portrayed an idyllic life in the mountains, surrounded by nature, with the men in charge and the women presented as naive girls, self-sacrificing mothers or nagging wives.
Fast forward to now and Gen Z feminists are taking on that tradition, forming choirs across Switzerland and yodelling their own way.
Anna KΓΆlberner is 26 and part of the JΓΌtz Youth Choir.
She told Stephanie Prentice how and why she yodels in the modern way.
It's a special technique of singing.
It's not like classical or pop singing.
You sing a bit different.
So you have like your breast voice that sounds like... And you have like your head voice that is like a bit higher.
And if you switch between these two voices, you get this really, really fine crack.
You get like... And that's the thing that we call yodeling.
So Anna, you're part of a youth choir with lots of women in it.
Why is yodelling so important to you, both as a performer but also as a feminist?
So there are some regions where there are more and more female voices who yodel.