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 unexplained.

Thank you for the steady flow of emails, some of them I've replied to personally and the

rest I will do in some shout outs.

On a future edition of this show, I want to get cracking with things, but before I talk

to the guests this time, and introduce a new topic I think to you, I just have a couple

of things to say.

One of them in fact is to do with an email I got.

This came from a guy calling himself Lars.

Now I wasn't able to reply to his email because it came from an anonymous email remailer,

but he made this point.

First of all he said that he liked the show and then he said, for as long as I've been

listening, you've often promised that there were big developments coming and the show

will improve and yet it stayed exactly the same.

So Lars, yes or no, progress has been slow because this is an independently funded very

small show.

We don't have the resources that big media can put into it, but what we do have is commitment

to it, which very frequently they lack.

And let's think about this.

Has the show improved?

Well I think technically the show has improved.

The shows are a little bit longer, there are more of them than they used to be and the

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