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.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hi my name is David Nolan and I'm one of the co-founder at button upbox.

Hi I'm Kevin Glenn also one of the co-flanders of Bonar on Fox.

So this is the production process beginning with the raw ingredients.

Yeah, so first of all we take our meat and we mince our meat.

Then we mix our minced meat with all of the rest of the dry ingredients.

So whether that be lentils sweet potato carrots broccoli

peas all the hygiene and food quality standards you'd expect in a ready meals

production unit but these meals aren't for us. They're for dogs. You don't need me to tell you that we're a country of animal lovers,

nowadays nearly half of us own a pet, and in spite of protestations from some court as it's dogs that remain

woman's best friend man's two for that matter this is my dog girtie a rescue

Staffordshire terrier Dutch Shepherd Cross.

She's very calm and loving and she doesn't bark much except when someone's at the door.

And she really likes her food. And it's my husband who supervises her diet. And he orders

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