Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

I've been in some quite interesting situations in my life. I've been around the world in the military.

I spent quite a bit of time in Iraq in the early 2000s,

and we would often have mortars landed out compound at night.

And that certainly gets the heart going,

but that's an entirely different kind of alertness to what happened there.

This was just pure terror.

This is Andy, and he is about to describe

the most frightening thing he's ever experienced in his life.

It was a very, very dark room,

and this thing was even darker,

and yet I could make out its form,

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