Chapter 1: What makes festive airport reunions so emotional?
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A scam exploiting vulnerable families with sick children. I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil. The child is directed on camera to plead for help. I want to be a normal kid. I want to go to school. They were going to upload it to social media. Millions of dollars pour in, but the families never receive the money. He told us it wasn't successful.
As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.
They used to raise funds for their own benefit.
World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service. Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and in this edition... Sometimes, to be honest, I'm there with the camera and I'm trying to wipe away the tears so that we don't miss the reunions.
It gets really emotional. It's a real privilege to be able to capture that and call it a job.
The airport workers spreading the joy of festive family reunions. A rather unusual U.S. judge. More bubble guns, the better, I think. For me, I provide something that no one else seems to be able to. And I love doing this. performing courthouse weddings with a difference. A rare tree continuing the legacy of a much-loved community figure.
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Chapter 2: Who are the creators behind the Dublin Airport reunion videos?
It's a real privilege to be able to capture that and call it a job.
What's been the most memorable interaction that you have captured? What is the one that will stay with you forever? I think for me, I think it was last year's one. There was a dad who was unwell and his daughter doesn't know that. And she was coming back to him. And that reunion for me, I was bawling. And I think it will always stick with me.
Seeing the little girl and the dad reuniting was just absolute magic for me. We're so lucky because we get to meet so many great people and great families. Honestly, some of them I want to go home with and have Christmas dinner with in the end. And you become part of that story.
And we see in the comments as well, you know, people who have loved ones abroad and they're saying, you know, these videos make me so emotional, but they're also, you know, really happy for those other families. So I think.
from our side it's bringing some joy this time of year but it's also really relatable I think everybody has somebody that's away and it's such a magic time of year uh I think it's just lovely
i can't get her away from the airport at the minute i keep telling her to go home but every time i turn around she's found another family that she wants to talk to it gets in on you yeah and uh yeah we have to remind ourselves to go home at times um says the guy who's just about to go back to the airport from home to meet more meet more families and but yeah like we we love it and uh how could you not
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