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. Do you think that have a picture?

Now as blank canvases go, this is an interesting one.

We are in a hotel in Kumamoto where Wales is going to be playing

Uruguay in their final World Cup pool match on Sunday and you and I are in this

salubrious little spot in a next to the vending machines

salubrious what does that mean? Luxurious glamorous we're there's not even an inch

between our two sets of legs it's nice and cozy we've got a bookcase to our right with some I think some Japanese anime

manga manga right and then some Japanese anime, manga? Manga. Manga.

And then some vending machines, and there's a laundry machine next door, so yeah, the height of glamour.

And Muzak as well, Japanese Muzak.

Muzak, yeah, smooth background music.

I think if Brian Eno was Japanese, he'd be composing music like this.

So Nicki is in Fukuoka, I'm not quite sure what he's doing

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