Across the UK, across Continental North America, and around the world on the internet by webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the Return of the Unexplained.

Thank you very much for the nice things you've been saying to me on email now that we've got our contact problems fixed.

We now have a new place for you to go on the website www.theunexplained.tv and you can email me direct from there.

And I love to hear from you. You've said some really nice things and it's also good that you've been mentioning recently and I know he will appreciate that Adam Cornwell, my webmaster at Creative Hotspot in Liverpool.

Adam has worked really hard on this show. I could not do any of this without him.

I'm enormously grateful and from your emails it seems you are too. I know as I say Adam will greatly appreciate that.

Now since I last appeared here, there's been a very big and seismic development in the world of broadcasting and it's one that's made me very very happy and many many other people too.

The return to the airwaves of Art Bell with his new Sirius XM satellite radio show called Dark Matter.

There are many reasons why I am delighted that Art Bell is back. Here in the UK he's always inspired me. I've been talking about these topics on radio for years.

But one day when I got my first computer I found this guy in America doing a show clearly from his own home, controlling everything himself and talking about all of this stuff.

Art Bell you may never know but you inspired me to do this. You gave me permission to go ahead.

So Art Bell, for personal reasons and professional ones, I welcome you back to the airwaves and I'll be listening.

On the subject of this show and how it started and where it's going, I want to talk very briefly about a subject that I almost never mentioned these days because I was brought up as I'm sure many of us were never to talk about money.

It was just seen to be in for light. The problem that I have with the unexplained is that the show is now reaching more people than ever.

We've doubled our listening in the last year which is staggering. We're doing really well in America and we depend on donations. Now the interesting thing is a phenomenon happening here and I don't quite understand how it works.

The listening is doubled but the donations of more than halved and I think it's partly because and I totally understand this people think that everything on the internet needs to be free and I think when it's big organizations yes it should because they have enough money anyway.

Or if it's an individual who's got another career and has the money that's fine in my case I worked in radio I worked on big stations but I never made any money so I've bankrolled this myself and I can't continue to do it.

Unfortunately so what's happened in my life I will continue to do the unexplained but I've taken a job that will start very soon and will mean a lot of hard work.

I'm hoping that it means I can still do as many shows because this is my first and main love and I want to develop this and I know we can so that explains where we're going at the moment.

I may have to find another funding option for the show at some point but I really want this to continue and so many of you say such nice things about me when I feel that I don't want to go on you pick me up and help me especially around the time when my father died this year.

Thank you.

Okay I want to do some shoutouts but just before I do I want to say thank you to Martin Martin is the guy if you're a regular listener who made our original theme tune then updated it and now has done me an update of the update and at the end of the show I want you to tell me what you think of it when I play some of it so I didn't play it at the beginning I will play it at the end.

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