Across the UK, across Continental North America, at around the world on the internet, by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

Thank you very much for bearing with me. I know this show is a little bit later than

it ought to have been as I explained on the last edition. I'm dealing with one or two things

at the moment that are putting a bit of a roadblock in life, but I'm hoping to surmount those

very soon and I will keep you posted. And in a future edition, I will explain exactly

what's been going on. Thank you for being my friend and for bearing with me during all

of this. On this edition, we're going to hear two guests from my radio show, two great

conversations, one with a man called Leonard David, who's just published a brand new book

about that topic that so many of us are really, really interested in, colonizing Mars.

Because this thing that seemed to be science fiction, when maybe you and I were kids,

now is looking like science fact, and it's going to be happening sooner than many of us

believe. So we'll talk to Leonard David, his new National Geographic book about colonizing

Mars. I think was out in America last month and is out in the UK this month. We'll also

talk with a man called Dr. Max Moore in the United States, but he's a Brit there. He is

in charge of the Alcor Foundation. Now, they've been in the news recently. They were

not directly involved in this case, but we had a news story here, a very human story

that certainly tugged at my being for a good long while. It was a story that I thought

about a lot as I was doing it on news. A girl of 14 who's dying wish was to be cryogenically,

or as you say in America, cryonically preserved. In other words, frozen is not technically

correct, but it's what journalists say about this. It's not really a freezing process

per se as you will hear. Dr. Max Moore is the second guest on this edition. No shoutouts

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