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 return of the unexplained.

Well before we get stuck into this edition of the show that I think you will find a very

fascinating one and certainly controversial, I just want to say a thank you to being with

me for the many years that we've been doing this show.

This is roughly coming to you more or less.

I give or take a couple of weeks here or there, the 13th anniversary of this show online

and it's something that I would never have started if it hadn't been for you suggesting

that we do this.

If you remember the very first radio show that was broadcast on Talk Sport across the

UK came to an end and eventually the station went all sports before, as many years later,

the launching their own All Talk station again.

So my show disappeared and I was thinking well that's just going to be the end of it

and then I got hundreds and I mean hundreds of emails I still have them on my computer

with people saying number one, sorry that your show's gone.

Number two, we think you have something and you should be continuing in this vein.

And number three, why don't you try doing a podcast and I know I've told this story

before, I know at the time I knew nothing about podcasting.

It was just a word to me and you some people did it.

This was 2006.

Everybody does a podcast now but they didn't then.

And so even though I was always interested in microphones and technology and stuff like

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