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. Look how down begins. Whales will be in the air tomorrow Nicky. What it, five days before our departure.

Five days of stressing about what to pack and what to leave at home, yes.

Have you packed?

I haven't packed yet, no.

I've got a full list, actually.

Wow, do you want me to try and find you?

All right, do you want to read through your list?

I'm saying, no one's to listen to that.

I've got a detailed list broken down into Leisure Ware.

Right. Miscellaneous, that means for chargers.

Charges as always.

Charges.

Charges and cream and mosquito repellent and then TV wear in another box and I've made this into like an

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