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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.

Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure.

We hope you enjoy it. I'm in a car full of chocolate on a 10 hour drive in South America and in a few

moments this trip is about to go badly wrong. Before we get to that here's a spoiler the story

before we get to that here's a spoiler the end of the story isn't dramatic

someone shares a bar of chocolate with me, which I come to realize

will be the most special and beautiful bar I'll ever taste. But I'm hoping you'll keep listening

because even though you know the end the journey to get to that bar is I think

Incredible terrifying moving and inspirational how can you resist now back to that difficult car journey? We were stopped. The people from the area blocked the roads with two buses to protest against the lack of security in this area.

On this journey with me is Chloe Dutre,

one of the world's great experts on one of my favorite foods, chocolate,

and the most prized source of the main... one of my favorite foods, chocolate.

And the most prized source of the main ingredient in chocolate,

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