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.

So it's half term. So this for me feels a bit like the Amlin Cup competition.

The frontliners have been rested.

Yeah, the rich and the wealthier are away.

Yeah, and up come the ones who might get an opportunity in the future.

You know, with developing talent, young

Nicky Robinson. Yeah, thank you. And a fresh-eyed baby-faced Scarra 3.0.

We are the younger pair, aren't we, compared to the older two?

You're younger than Steph, aren't you?

I'm about two or three years younger.

Fine, and I'm significantly younger than Martin, aren't I?

I guess on.

You might not recognize the voices.

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