Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world on the internet, my

name is Howard Hughes and this is Beyond Explained.

Thank you very much for coming back to the show wherever you may be over the last month

or so.

I've had emails from every corner of the globe, the latest theme from Beve Down in New

Zealand, Beve Thank you for the email.

Also to my friends in Texas and across North America and of course the hardland of the

show, the USA.

Now you might think at the moment that I sound a little bit different and if you think

that you're absolutely right because I'm not in the studio, I'm not even in London.

I am 6,000 miles and the people where I am would say about 10,000 kilometers away from

my base in London and right now I'm in somebody's home in South Africa.

In Johannesburg, South Africa it is almost the middle of June and it is summer time in

the Northern Hemisphere and winter time down here but in English terms you wouldn't even

know that because this is like an English summer down here.

Most of the days are sunny, the sky is blue, a lot of the time they get a little bit

of rain and occasionally it is what they call cold but if you live in North America or

you live in London, you'll think it's warm because a day here in the winter time feels

like a day in the summer time at home or a day in a late spring.

That's what I am now.

I'm in Johannesburg and I guess the subject I'm going to talk about this time round is

some bipopular request.

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