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.

You're listening to BBC one.

You've never been to round one.

I'm an experienced round one.

So you've just walked through the doors and if you're on your way out to

Japan right at any point this is a chain you have to come to round one.

It's an incredible place.

Doesn't look like much, does it?

No.

You can probably tell her from the sounds behind you.

It's like every fear ground, every Tempin bowling alley, every karaoke

booth you've ever been to but rolled into one and piled up on top of each other over a few floors.

So yeah, pretty manic, quite a lot to take on on your first visit but

you of course you're a veteran. So here for quite a cheap rate considering

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