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 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. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

It's 50 years since an astonishing archaeological find was uncovered in China. In 2013 Rebecca

Keesby spoke to two people who helped unearth the Terra Kota Army. It's March the 29th, 1974, and a small group of farmers digging a well near the city of Siam have come across something most of ricotta clay. Due tofully they handed in to the provincial governor who's also perplexed.

He dispatches a team of archaeologists.

Professor Yuan Jean-Yee is the leader. They sent us to go and check it out.

I remember when we set off.

The officer told us to write a report for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage about it. He said the whole thing would probably take a week.

For some time historians have known that China's first emperor,

Chin-shi-Hwan-Di, is buried under a man-made hill near Sien,

although it's never been excavated.

But the terracotta head was found more than a kilometer from that site.

Professor Yuan Jong-Yi didn't know at first if the two were related,

but he realized early on that this find could be significant.

When we actually started digging, we realized there was no edge to the site, no limit.

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