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.

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Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio Falls, the food program.

I'm Dan Saladino.

Welcome to our world.

From cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy

this edition. Sheila, I need to tell you about this dream I had last night.

Really? A good dream? An amazing dream.

And it was all about food. We were in your home.

Well, actually it was our home home because in this dream we were the

more common wise of the food world.

We lived together and spent our days cooking, eating and drinking, but in this particular dream we were having this

huge Christmas feast and we'd invited chefs, food writers, drinks experts to join us and each

one had bought something special and a story and it all

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