Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,

find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. In a woman who's lost her

camp at the small village of Gagnell in South Sudan,

a woman who's lost her husband is trying to look after five barefoot children who have lost their mother and father.

But she has no food to give them, except the roots of the water lilies that grow in the nearby swamps.

She's tall and soft-spoken, maybe 40 years old.

When the planes fly over and drop sacks of sorghum or lentils,

she joins the long queues in front of the aid workers handing out thin rations.

But there's never enough to feed those hungry children or the many

thousands of others seeking refuge here from a terrible civil war.

Parts of South Sudan are now officially in famine.

That means people are dying of hunger every day.

One in five don't have enough to eat,

and a third of the children are dangerously malnourished.

We are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations.

Now more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine.

Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will and an official speaking in New York last week. He'd just come back from South Sudan.

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