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.

Now, thank you as ever for all of your emails and for bearing with me.

We are into the storm season in the UK now.

We had one last night.

The rattled a few things and put down an awful lot of rain and I think there are more to

come, but none of this is anything compared with the experience of places like Florida

in the teeth of Hurricane Irma.

I'll be monitoring public radio coverage of the storm and its aftermath and public radio

saying that some people may be without power in Florida for another week, maybe more,

which is unimaginable for a lot of people in a modern society, disruption to water

too, and of course people who lost their lives and property.

My thoughts are with you all and we will explore on this programme in the future.

The changes that may be happening to our weather and the enormity of them.

That is a topic to come, but like I say, my thoughts if you're in Florida or any of the

states affected, definitely with you.

Lots of shout outs to catch up on on this edition of the show, then a very special conversation

with a very special man, his name James Burke.

If you live in America or the UK, you may remember James from his amazing groundbreaking

science series on TV, series like Connections that made headlines around the world and turned

him into a star.

Nobody explains science.

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