How a plea to fly a dog to the US ended in marriage. Adri Pendleton and Niklas Stöterau fell in love after he came to the rescue. Also: a son who's saved his dad's life, twice; and helping the homeless through tennis.
Chapter 1: How did a plea to fly a dog lead to marriage?
I'm Bernadette Keogh and in this edition... I'm going to try to get through this without crying too much. Please watch this whole video.
How a cry for help on social media led to love and marriage. I got a man who's completely obsessed with me. I love it.
And a wife who's the same way.
Yes. Yes. Also saving your dad's life twice.
I want to live now, having my dad around. Life is not promised, so I'm not going to worry about what could or couldn't happen. I need to live for now.
Joshua gave stem cells when he was 12 and has now donated a kidney. How learning to cook at home is saving people money and improving their health... and a chance encounter that led to a project using tennis to help homeless people.
He kind of said to me, hey, I've seen you on telly, would you play tennis with me? He played like Ken Rosewill and Rod Laver, he was amazing.
As couples around the world have just been celebrating Valentine's Day, we're starting with a truly modern transatlantic love story. It has everything. An American with a broken heart, an elderly dog, a German pilot in shining armour and a happily ever after in Switzerland. And as Nicky Cardwell reports, it all began with a tearful plea for help on social media.
I'm going to try to get through this without crying too much. Please watch this whole video.
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Chapter 2: Who saved a life through stem cell and kidney donation?
So time we were talking, we started video calling every day. I got a job offer here in Switzerland. Due to that, it was pretty clear for us that we wanted to live together as well. So we decided to talk to an immigration lawyer and she basically said, if you want to live together here, your best bet is to get married.
So we decided, okay, well, if that's what we got to do to be together, then that's what we're going to do.
We're going to get married.
Some friends, they said, yeah, but if you talk to yourself a year and a half ago, you definitely wouldn't expect your current self to be Living in Switzerland.
Married.
Married. Yeah, it feels great.
He is currently looking at me as if I hung every single star in the sky. I got a man who's completely obsessed with me. I love it.
I got a wife who's the same way.
Yes.
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Chapter 3: How is cooking at home saving people money?
Alicia had originally run cooking workshops for a charity to try and encourage people to prepare their own meals.
They were great lessons, really great and social, and people were benefiting in many social ways, but they were not changing what they ate at home.
Alicia found out that people didn't know how to cook the kinds of meals that they'd like to eat and they also couldn't afford to experiment. And takeaways, while more expensive, were convenient and reliable.
So what we do now is we deliver all the ingredients to their door because ultimately behaviour change starts with actually changing your behaviour at home.
Now, a key part of the programme includes being part of a WhatsApp group that has a nutritionist as a mentor. In the group, participants connect and motivate each other to cook. I was invited to join the programme to see how all this works. Yes. Thank you. I got a box filled with free groceries.
I also got stuff like new measuring spoons, a nice sharpener, and crucially, three simple recipes to try at home. My daughter and I had a go at cooking these meals together. Let's read. The first thing we're going to have to do is... Chop the onions. OK. Do you want me to do that? Because I know you don't like chopping onions.
Yeah, I sometimes cry.
We made a chickpea and mushroom pilaf and a pasta dish. And for two weeks, we stayed in touch with other participants on our WhatsApp group and shared pictures of our meals. My nine-year-old was also able to follow all the cooking instructions. I was keen to speak to someone who had gone through the whole programme before to see if it had made a difference.
Errol is in his 50s and he lives in East London, a place called Hackney. Errol graduated from the course last November.
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of nutrition on health inequalities?
On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money. Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
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Now to a chance meeting that led to an unlikely friendship and ended up changing hundreds of people's lives. Australian Louise Plemming played tennis professionally in the 1990s and still travels the globe as a commentator and elite coach. But during Covid, she volunteered at a soup kitchen where she met a homeless man called Brian Turton.
Brian had always dreamt of a professional tennis career and even played on the circuit in Australia in his late teens. But after developing mental health problems, he found himself living on the streets. Their friendship led to Louise setting up the charity Rally Forever, which uses tennis to help people get back on their feet and gave Brian work as a coach.
Their friendship featured in an ABC documentary.
The first time we hit together, I don't know whether she was surprised I hit the ball so well or we hit well together and enjoyed each other's company.
There was something about him. He was homeless and had his sleeping bag there and yet here he was on the tennis court and his passion for tennis just blew me away.
Louise spoke to my colleague Katie Smith.
He kind of said to me, hey, I've seen you on telly commentating. And he said, what are you doing here? And would you come and have a coffee with me after lunch? And I sat down with him and Brian opened up this little black bag of two 1970s Jimmy Connors, you know, tennis racket. And there were three balls in that racket bag. And he said, would you play tennis with me?
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