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my name is Howard Hughes and this is The Unexplained.

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Now I've suspended the show that I planned to put out on this occasion simply because we've

been overtaken again by events, a dreadful appalling, terrible act of terrorism,

concerted in Paris, a city that has I sit here in London is what, a hundred miles or so south of me.

We are very close to the French in many ways, although sometimes they laugh at the different

differences between us and we laugh at the differences between the two nations, the way that they do

things, the food that they eat, the way that they speak, but nevertheless we are close in so many

ways, so many words in the English language are from the French language and would be understood in both.

And we respect and love their culture and their food and their way of doing things and they

have the same respect for us, that's the fact. So to see something happening in a familiar place,

so close to home is an enormous shock to all of us. I covered this on the radio live yesterday

morning, one of the first programs to be done about this yesterday and I said and I stand by what I

said for Paris, read London, for Paris, read Sydney, for Paris, read New York or Los Angeles, or Singapore

or Jakarta or anywhere. This is an attack on us all. As I speak to you this morning, it's Sunday

morning, I'm recording this. We now know that the carnage took 193 minutes to unfold. As we

understand this morning, 129 people are dead, that may change, 350 wounded with an attack on a

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