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. Right Martin's away this week so we have a super replacement Philipp, who you'll know from the Women's Six Nations

podcast that we did earlier in the year is here.

How are you?

I'm very well, thank you.

Super sub in it for us. Yeah, no, awesome. thank you very much for this community be involved

any time we kind of we're a Scrum five podcast family.

love it. So you your week so far in terms of rugby, did you watch a lot on the weekend?

You know what, I was actually at a 40th birthday party on the Friday.

Good 30th party on this Saturday.

It was my parents 40th anniversary on the Sunday.

So I was that person and kept disappearing

for the toilet for a computer time with my phone. yes I sneakily managed to get through all

the rugby a great weekend what a great weekend loads going on and the football

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