Vanessa Heaney

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

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To the far north of Scotland next, and the Shetlands, which recently hosted a group of men from America on a knitting trip.

They were among thousands of people who flocked to the islands every year to learn about their knitting heritage.

Andrea Rasikova has been speaking to some of the men who joined the trip.

Quick knit reminders with Yarn Dragon.

This is purl through the back loop.

Starting first with the yarn in our right hand to purl through the back loop.

This is Jonathan Berner, a content creator from Seattle, better known as the Yarn Dragon.

He says that knitting has introduced him to something spectacular.

I was relatively newly sober.

I was going to lots of 12-step meetings and painfully listening to the same guy tell his story for the 72nd time, you know, and thought that knitting would be a good way to occupy myself in those meetings.

But man, I fell in love with the engineering and the history and certainly that fidget spinner aspect.

I mean, it genuinely makes it easier to go through life having...

that thing to do with my hands.

And it has made it so much easier for me to connect with a society.

Jonathan joined 24 other men from different states in the U.S.

on a journey to Shetland, more than 8,000 kilometers away from their home.

It's a place renowned for its wool, knitting patterns and techniques, and somewhere the group described as the holy place for knitters.

We talk about wool being part of a culture, but in Shetland, wool is the people and the people are wool and the land is made for yarn.

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