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.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity

to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment,

would you capture it or just let it slip?

I'm Rick Edwards, and this is Fighting Talk. Good morning fighting talkers. There is a palpable fricon in the air. There's an electricity. People in the studio were whispering in

hush tones, they're high-fiving each other. I think I just saw the studio manager take

a drag of a disco cigarette. Why all of this feverish excitement? I'll tell you, for the first

time this series, I am not wearing a hat because I've had a fresh trim. It feels

momentous, because it is momentous.

So who's on today trying to focus on winning some points whilst being hopelessly distracted by my lovely new hair?

The baby of the panel is on for her 12th show that is still more than 86% of fighting talk panelists

but doesn't stand tall in this illustrious and very available company.

Last time on she reached D.T.I for the first time time but that was more than 18 months ago.

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