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.

I'll still mild here in the UK.

Some horrendous amounts of rain though, I can't remember it raining so much in an November

ever, but it's been positively monsoon all one way and another.

But that's the weather report.

Thank you as ever to Adam, my webmaster for his hard work and thank you again to Haley

for booking the guests.

A few emails to deal with before we get into the guest and a very special guest on this

edition of the unexplained, the former head of GCHQ, a man deeply connected with the intelligence

community in the UK, so David Oman will be here talking about his life in this field,

but also about his new book, which is essentially a guide to the way that spies work.

But more about that in a moment.

As I say, a number of emails, Dave, first of all, just to put here on the podcast, my

deepest sympathies, Dave, the loss of your father, which you told me about, I have been through

this and you know, they say the time is a healer.

Well, I don't know whether it's a healer, but you learn to cope.

You learn to accept, I think, over time, but you have to give yourself the time.

And you know, as I say, my condolences and I'm sorry to hear this.

Jay, thank you for your email and I'm very sorry to hear of the death of Dr. Patricia

and Strutt, who was involved in the labeled release experiments on Mars back in the 70s,

when they may or may not have discovered the foundations of biological life there.

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