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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: a podcast about One Direction, Leo Reich's comedy special, and the shows The Artful Dodger and Jet Lag.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jack Dawkins in <em>The Artful Dodger.</em>

This week, things got dicey for Elmo, people just kept on being weird about Taylor Swift, and we we said goodbye to the great, great, great Chita Rivera.

Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

One Direction - A Fan Story

is a BBC podcast hosted by Maddie Grace Jepson, written and produced by Gráinne Morrison. It is a beautiful retelling of the rise of One Direction from the view of a

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