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.

Hello you, I'm Adam Rutherford and like all humans I love telling stories the only real difference for us

scientists is that our stories are real but we also keep changing them as we find out more and more

this is the podcast version of Part 1 of the Inside Science

Christmas and New Year special, this one first broadcast on December the 26th, Boxing Day.

We're devoting two episodes to this, the greatest story ever told.

It is the story of us, how we evolved, how we migrated around the world from our African origins,

and how we evolved within Africa.

This, as you will no doubt know, is a perennial favorite of ours and inside science,

and two years ago we covered a million years worth of human evolution, including the new-ish

news about our euphemistic interactions with people who we used to consider to be our cousins, but were in fact our year we're radically narrowing our scope and limiting the story to just the last

10,000 years or so but all around the world in Africa, in Europe and all the way down to

the South Pacific and New Zealand and it is a tale of war and peace of plagues disease pestilence and a lot of sex all the

juicy stuff from our own history and it's also a story under constant revision not

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