You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

You're listening to Wednesdays episode of The Archers, from BBC Radio 4. And the Hi Estella, are you doing your Christmas shopping and all?

Kind of. I've got an appointment over in Darrington,

so I thought I'd stop off on my way.

I've never been before.

It's lovely.

Oh, it's become a Christmas tradition of mine,

a visitor deck the hall.

I've already ransacked the hand soap stone and I've got some lovely new

decks for my tree. I did hear talk of a new strudel stall stall for this year but I haven't seen

it. Oh look there's Freddie.

Freddie!

All right Joy.

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