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. What you make is a bullet train? It's very comfortable, very quiet, which is why we're whispering a bit. It's very fast.

But I'm not going disappointed with it because it's obviously a huge feat of engineering

But it just seems like a nice comfy train.

I'm doing a little bit, I can't say that can I I can't come to Japan and say

that bullet trainers are just a train no it's very good and I think we travel quite a

large distance it's very efficient getting on and, getting on the train wasn't it.

We haven't got off yet because we were on it, but when we were got on it, although me and you

nearly got on the wrong train because we were on a different carriage to the rest of our

crew and we thought the train

there was one we're getting on and luckily we walked down a carriage at home we got there

the doors were closed and we thought we'd missed our train but actually we were getting the next one.

But no, it's, we've seen a bit, we went past Mount Fuji, do you see that?

No? No?

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