Vanessa Heaney

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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life · 22 Nov 2025 podcast

But I want a job.

And I just started to look up maybe like writing jobs for young people or teens.

I found one posting that they were looking for writers and I applied.

I said that that was my experience and I got it.

As far as for what barriers I overcame, I think it was really all about trying to get people to understand why disability was important.

an important point of view and why it was, you know, something important to be said.

You know, a lot of people also were struggling to understand, you know, what were the types of stories that I wanted to tell about disability.

It wasn't that I wanted to say it's so sad and it's

You know, this story of like this family that has a disabled child, like, oh, look how cute.

That's not the stories that I wanted to pitch.

So really trying to kind of, you know, make other people understand that and therefore also have that come through through my reporting and storytelling was something to be learned.

This is the happy pod.

What makes you happy?

Young people and hope.

Not One Direction.

Emily Flores speaking to Holly Gibbs.

Johann Sebastian Bach is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in musical history.

To many, he's the single greatest composer of all time.

So imagine the excitement when two recently rediscovered works were confirmed as having been written by a young Bach at the start of the 18th century in Germany.

Earlier this week, the two pieces for organ were performed for the first time in more than 300 years at St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where the composer is buried.

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