You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.

Hello, I'm Jim Arkelili and this is the Life Scientific.

The deal is, I get to talk to some of the amazing men and women who are trying to understand our world

and to make it a better place, and you get to find out what makes them get out of bed in the morning.

Hello, Charles Godfrey has described himself as a natural historian in the sense of

studying natural history who throughout his career has followed his nose and only

accidentally he says ended up as a senior academic now the professor of

population biology at Oxford University and director of the Oxford Martin school

he is involved in all sorts of groundbreaking projects exploring everything from the impact of AI to the future of organ printing

From childhood adventures in the South Downs to a scholarly obsession with the strange and gruesome world of parasitic wasps.

Charles has maintained his fascination with the complex web of insect interactions and behaviors.

But a knack for weaving together diverse scientific strands

shines through too, whether helping to uncover a malaria eradicating gene using mathematical

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