You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.

I want you to imagine that you're someone else for a moment.

It's the turn of the 18th century.

You're a nobleman, an Earl in fact the Third Earl of Carlisle.

You've just turned 30 and you want to make an impression.

You have an estate in Yorkshire and you've decided you need someone to design you a castle a monument befitting

your dynasty. But whom to entrust with this huge project? A designer with an illustrious back

catalogue and experienced architect with impressive monuments to show off.

Maybe. But what about that playwright, you know?

The one who writes uproarious unsettling dramas, the suspected spy who's seen

the world, the imaginative wig with all the zip and pip. True, he hasn't actually built

anything, but he says he can. Why not take a punt on him?

That dramatist soldier, impresario and storyteller, was Sir John Vanborough.

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