Chapter 1: What extraordinary promise did Daisy make to Georgia at 15?
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If you can do an act of kindness that, you know, really changes someone's life, then you should do it if you can. How an extraordinary teenage promise resulted in a woman having a baby for her best friend. The world-renowned pianist Lang Lang on spreading the healing power of music.
We've been very lucky to work with many kids around the world and somehow music is really the best medicine.
A new statue designed to celebrate the realities of pregnancy and childbirth. The small owl that had a lucky escape after getting stuck in a cement mixer. Plus the young feminists putting their own spin on an ancient Alpine tradition. You're listening to The Happy Pod on the BBC World Service. We start with a story of love, friendship and an extraordinary teenage promise.
Georgia Barrington was just 15 when she learned she'd been born with ovaries but no womb, a rare condition called Meyer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, or MRKH. So her best friend, Daisy Hope, promised that she would carry her baby for her when they were older. Despite her heartbreak, Georgia continued with her dream of becoming a midwife.
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Chapter 2: How did Georgia's dream of motherhood become a reality?
I mean, as soon as I saw her head, like when Daisy was pushing, I absolutely lost it, which meant Claire, who was our midwife, lost it. So she probably couldn't see really what she was doing. I said, stop crying. If I start crying, there's no chance I'm getting this baby out. And my partner kind of just sat scared but excited. We were all there, though.
Chapter 3: What role does music play in healing according to Lang Lang?
My partner was there. Yeah, to have all of us there, it was just amazing. You are very newly a mum because of your best friend. I just feel so lucky.
I wish I could picture this and give it to that 15-year-old me sat in that GP surgery because now, even though I see and I think, oh, it would be lovely to be pregnant, I would not change this. No one else will ever have what we have had.
I just feel so lucky. And every time I look at her, I just, yeah, I'm so grateful. Doing this, having fulfilled the mission, I mean, is that how it feels a bit? Is there sort of a sense of purpose about it? Yeah, I feel like my purpose is complete.
Like that's genuinely like because I've done this wonderful thing and it's the first time in my entire life other than having Amelia that I feel so proud of myself.
Chapter 4: What does the statue Mother Verite represent about motherhood?
And I'm so pleased that I am a strong person and I could get through it and I did it for my friend. And that's like the best thing I will ever achieve, I think. 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 Kƶlberner is 26 and part of the JĆ¼tz 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.
Could you tell me a little bit about how that works? How do you do it?
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. But here in the east of Switzerland, until today, it's more a man tradition. But yodelling is just like a natural singing that really comes directly from the heart.
And it can connect so many people together because you can sing together if you don't really know what you're singing and you don't have to read notes. You can like go with your ear and hear what the others do and you can just connect. So I think yodeling is a really good thing to bring people together.
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