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.

Most of us can look back at failed relationships and see those moments when you realize it's not going to go the distance.

The top left off the toothpaste again or the misplaced apostrophe when he's writing out the wedding invitations.

For cookery writer Diana Henry, that moment was all about her collection of cookbooks.

There was one point when we stood on the landing one day together and it basically housed most of the collection and they were all on

Shelfs and all around it and we stood there one day and he said just just look at these I mean there's thousands of them and I said yes and he

almost said you need to get rid of them and I kind of understood that it was sort of a choice between him and the books.

And I really, obviously, it was a choice between my massive cookbook collection and any man,

the cookbooks are going to get my vote.

A little bit of me and a whole lot of you

at a dash of starlight and a dozen roses too

then let it rise for a hundred years or two and that's a recipe I bought my first cookbook when I was 12 years old I've just kept buying them

I just kept buying them and over the years I've built up a collection of about 4,000.

To look forward so much to new ones coming out would be just the anticipation about a new book coming out that I kind of read

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