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.

There has been some muttering online recently

about what a great life is

and whether the life has to have been real and lived rather than just imagined.

The debate was sparked by our programme on Robinson Crusoe, our producer whose logic is engaging,

thought there was no problem because the book, the life and

adventures of Robinson Crusoe clearly states it was, quote, written by himself, close

quote. And what the heck? We've done Tintin after all, and we have a similar format today,

a character from a book definitely larger than life, but not strictly real.

Before I reveal our fictional hero's name, let me introduce my guest. Political

correspondent Peter Oborne, who's one columnist of the year twice in recent years, written

for all the right publications and some of the wrong ones,

and also fronted great TV documentaries on Afghanistan and Robert Mugabe and Cricket, and

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