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.

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Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture,

politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it.

Shine on, shine on harvest in.

Up in the sky. Picking a fig,

a fig.

it's um, it's um, it really is like, you know,

the simple part of it. Shine on, shine on harvest moon for me and my girl.

You ready.

It's the autumn equinox, the moment when the day and night meet us equals and the beginning of the

autumn and the easy road towards the winter chill.

Away from the fields it's also a time of year that's loaded with significance. For many of us, September still feels like the beginning of something.

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