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 edition 200 of the Unexplained.

As I recorded those words, I really couldn't believe that I was saying them because I know I've said this before but I well remember sitting exactly here.

199 shows ago, recording edition 1.

And thinking, I wonder if anybody's gonna hear this?

And I wonder if anybody will email me to tell me that they've heard it. And they did.

You know, ticked both of those boxes.

So I'm very delighted that the shows developed and that I've learned more about recording techniques and I've learned a great deal more about the guests and about you and the kind of things you want to hear.

Now on this edition we're gonna do things a little differently. There'll be no shout outs and there won't be a guest in the regular sense.

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look back at some of my favorite interviews and also bring you a new interview with Heather Cooper, the famous British astronomer, and her writing partner Nigel Hembest, who is in training to be a virgin galactic astronaut.

That project is still on track on course and we'll hear more about that in this edition.

So we're gonna look back, first of all, on some of the great guests that we've had here, including people like Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut.

And the father of modern uphology, Stanton, J. Friedman, who I've interviewed a number of times and it was great recently to get him on the unexplained. What an interesting man he is.

And what a depth of research he's done over the years.

We've had them all on this show. We've had psychics and mediums and scientists and people who believe that they are pursued by creatures or agents.

People who investigate ufos and people who in the pureest sense of the word investigate space and people who investigate weather. People who investigate weather manipulation.

Just about everything has been fair game for the show over the years.

Now I couldn't have done any of it without a lot of help from you, with your support and your donations, please keep those coming if you can.

But also Adam Cornwell, my webmaster at Creative Hotspot in Liverpool, who joined the unexplained way back in 2009 when we were both working at Radio City in Liverpool.

And he volunteered to help me with this and I couldn't have done any of it without Adam's guidance and support.

And the things that he's taught me about how to create a show like this and how to get it out to people. So Adam, thank you very much indeed.

Okay, let's look back before we get to the interview with Heather Cooper and Nigel Hanbest at some of my favourite guests on this edition.

We're going to start with a man who walked on the moon, Edgar Mitchell.

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