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 Sounds. Guess who's back?

Back again. Nicky's back.

Nicky's back. Tell a friend.

See, that's what happens when you spend a couple of weeks in Japan and you do too rich karaoke and you think

you can sing, don't you, Gareth?

Or rap?

Or is that a rap? Mate, it's just good to have you back I'm just chuffed to have you back

you put a smile on our faces we've had you back for three hours

we've we now all realized the film crew best for see how childish you are how much we've missed

that kind of low-brow humour yet at the same time we haven't all I mean we've got a

pretty high tolerance of you already as well because we we haven't, I mean we've got a pretty high tolerance of you already as well because we haven't seen

you for a week.

Yeah, I've picked on Daniel Jones a little bit today, but he'll probably get me back later. But it's nice to be back. The jet lag hasn't quite

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