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 The Archer's Omnibus from BBC Radio 4. Oh, Knock, not. Who's there? Cows go who? No they don't, I told you before. Cows go,

who? No they don't, I told you before. Cows go move. Oh, you're muscling in on my joke?

I was putting it out of its misery.

What do you mean?

That, that was worse than the others, wasn't it stellar?

They weren't great, David.

And I've been hearing that one since I was eight. You are steadily undermining my confidence here, you two.

This is a well-honed routine. It's funny. The show's on Thursday and you haven't told me a single joke I haven't heard before several times.

They are a bit threadbare.

Well, I'm not dropping out.

No, we're not saying that.

I won't.

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