Across the UK and around the world on the internet by webcast and podcast my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

And the show returns. Thank you very much for making the last month or so a record for the show.

Lots of hits on the website and an awful lot of downloads of the show and a great deal of email.

Just more email than we've ever had. Email arriving by the day with suggestions and guest ideas.

Very good to get all of that. Please keep the emails coming in. You can email me via the website www.theunexplained.tv is the address of the website.

And there's a little link box there. Check that and you'll go straight to me.

The feedback is very important. I would also ask you to do another thing. We're changing the format this month for the show on iTunes.

You'll hear what it is when you get there. But whatever, if you're hearing the show on iTunes, always please come and just go to the website as well and check out what's there.

It's very important to me. It gives me an idea of who's out there. And talking of that, well I'll be looking at the maps over the last, oh gosh, month or so.

And the show is reaching places that it's never reached before. Little islands in the middle of the Pacific, right across the United States, all the way up into Canada, right across to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan we have now.

We have Japan, New Zealand, Australia and any country you name, whether it's in Europe, whether it's in Asia, whether almost all of Africa now covered people are hearing the show.

That is an indication that perhaps we're hitting the mark here. I don't know, you have to tell me that. But it's also an indication, of course, now of the power of the internet.

These days, you can make a show like this and you can reach people directly in a way that when I started my radio career two decades ago, we couldn't envisage that this was possible.

All there was then. And I'm still interested in it now as I know many of you are was short wave radio. That was the way or maybe AM or medium wave radio to reach vast numbers of people over long distances. Now that is not so.

The rule book has been thrown right out of the window. And I think this year of 2008 is possibly the most exciting year. And I have said this in one of our radio magazines in the UK.

The most exciting year because the technology that allows us to listen to radio is moving at a faster rate than ever.

You know, more people are buying these Wi-Fi radios that allow you to listen to thousands, not just hundreds or scores of radio stations, but thousands of broadcasts and webcasts and radio stations from around the world. So this is the future.

And what it means for people like me is it allows us to continue getting the message out there in a totally impartial, completely independent way.

You know, this show, I've talked about the funding for it in the past, but this show is totally independent, completely impartial and as it has been for quite a while, it is is underfunded, which brings me to another subject.

We're going to have to change the way that we fund this show. I know I'm bang on about that all the time, but we really do because it isn't paying its way and we need to find some kind of charging mechanism.

Now a lot of you with emails over the last month or so have suggested donations. That's a very good idea. We might do that and I might be coming back to you, but thank you for your kindness.

And generally thank you for your kindness. Every single emails and there have been a lot of emails over the last month have been very kind, very thoughtful, above all very supportive, but also ingenious with the ideas and suggestions.

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