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The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Edition 460 - Rick Minter

The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

News

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Big cat expert Rick Minter on the UK's growing "big cat" population - where they are and how they got here...

Transcript

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Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast

0:07.0

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the Return of the Unexplained.

0:12.0

Well, another boiling hot day here in London town as I record this.

0:17.0

May was warm or hot sometimes and it looks like June which we are now into.

0:22.0

Could be for part of it at least the same, who knows what the temperature is going to be like here.

0:27.0

By the time we get into July, August, I don't even want to think about it.

0:30.0

Although, you know, it's better than winter.

0:33.0

Lockdown of course continues here in the UK.

0:36.0

For me this is more than nine weeks of doing everything that I do in my own little flat, my own apartment.

0:44.0

And not really seeing anybody beyond the people on the checkout at the local supermarket.

0:49.0

It's been the strangest of existences because I've spoken to people all over the world

0:53.0

and I've done a radio show.

0:55.0

But I haven't really left my home apart from a daily cycle.

0:59.0

In two and a half months, it's astonishing.

1:03.0

And look, you know, I've got it comparatively easy so I have no cause for complaint.

1:09.0

But some people have found it enormously difficult.

1:12.0

And you know, I've had my challenges at times but mostly I've got through.

1:16.0

I hope that you're okay.

1:18.0

And thank you for sending me your stories of what's going on with you in lockdown.

1:21.0

You can always do that.

1:23.0

And thank you very much for the nice kind things that you've said about this show.

1:27.0

And you know, the way that you use it and what it means to you.

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