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 Tuesday's episode of The Archers from BBC Radio 4. And the Oh, all right, all right. Give it a rest.

What? Emma, is that you?

Mom?

You've not gone down with something in all, have you?

No, no.

You sound a bit rough. No, it is nothing like I've not long been up, that's all.

Well, what do you want?

You're not working this afternoon, are you? This afternoon, um, what day is it?

What day?

Tuesday? Oh, yeah, yeah, course it is. Um, oh I am actually, yeah, why?

Well, I thought you might come round for a coffee, a bit of a catch-up,

I just made a chewy cake, but if you're busy, well don't have I think about it.

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