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 know we ask for like comments and reviews on social media and on the apps?

No you don't yeah a lot of them have been about us eating.

Are they really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've cut it out for a few weeks.

Yeah, well, I can't remember the last time I had a kick on this pod.

I haven't done a pod.

This is because we respond, isn't it?

So we've had cakes before today.

Yeah, I just eaten, yeah, I was going to wait,

but I had a bite of the Cherry Bakewell he got,

which was the posauciest cherry bake

whatever and it's gone now so what what people are happy with eating?

So here are some of the ones off iTunes right or the Apple app. Is that where you get the reviews? That's where you get a lot of the

reviews. So great pod, the Cake Edie drives me mad. That's from James in London.

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