You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

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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,

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I felt like such a Westwalean this morning

because we've arrived in London,

County Hall, Six Nations Launch,

and as I walked across the embankment I saw the House of Parliament and I just took a picture.

Like a tourist.

Well it was lucky you made it here at all, Gareth.

He failed to mention that he had a little breakdown in you on the train coming up.

The train was broken down.

You flew directly from Bayonne.

I did.

I did. Well, a decent win for the scarlets out in

boyon we have the six nations launch we cannot fail to mention the fact that the

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