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.

Wherever in this world you are, thank you for being my friend and for supporting me

across this year of 2016.

I wish you a very happy Christmas and if the Christmas holidays passed when you hear this,

I wish you everything that you would wish for yourself.

For 2017, I can't believe that we're already at 2017.

I know I've said this before but it seems like only yesterday that I was sitting here and

talking about the arrival of 2007 after our first year on the podcast of 2006 and here

we are 2017.

It's been a year of, well, triumph and disaster like any other but we've had to say goodbye

to an awful lot of people who've been part of our lives like David Bowie and many, many

others in entertainment.

It's been a hard year to bear in so many ways.

There've been tragedies and terrorist attacks.

This year has been a year of instability and it's also been a year of change, of course,

with the election of Donald Trump who will become president in a matter of weeks at the

inauguration.

That was myad in controversy.

There were arguments on both sides and they were powerful and they were strong and now

I guess the task of the new president is to bring together his nation.

And then over here we had the vote that nobody expected for Brexit.

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