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.

As ever, thank you very much for all of your emails and some of you telling me that these

podcasts are keeping you going through these uncertain and very odd times.

Let me tell you, your communications with me are keeping me going too.

Sometimes I think when you're kind of in isolation, you start to lose a sense of reality.

I don't know whether I'm slipping that far, but sometimes you lose a sense of connection.

That's better.

And just to know that there are real people beyond my four walls and the areas that I go

and exercise in during lockdown is a marvelous boost to me.

And I think for the reason very simply that it tells me that there is going to be a

resurgence one day and we'll be able to go back to something like normality,

I will be able to travel and do all of the things that we did.

There's just been a government briefing on the latest state of play with vaccinations

and coronavirus all the rest of it here.

And I have to say I listen to the beginning of it and then I turn it off.

I think you reach a saturation point with all of this and sometimes even if you're

somebody like me and I've been in the news business all of my life, you just have to

just be able to swim and swim and swim.

I think for a while so that's exactly what I'm doing.

And I'm going to get immersed in the topic that we're going to discuss on this edition

of the unexplained.

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