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

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Summer cranks on here in the northern hemisphere I know it's been in some parts of the southern

hemisphere fairly cold one way and another but here in the north it is definitely warm.

But we know that before long once people start to complain about how hot it is it's going

to flip back again and the seasons will change a little bit hot in the south and warm in

the north.

If you've been affected by some of the problems brought by the weather lately like floods

that we had recently in parts of the United Kingdom fires in some parts of the world

then my thoughts are definitely with you.

The weather as it manifests itself the climate seem to be manifesting all kinds of things

at the moment.

I wish we could just have one of the old fashioned English summers.

They seem to have gone but I've mentioned that before so I won't mention it again.

Now the guest on this edition of the podcast is an extended version of a conversation you

may have heard on my radio show about a topic that is utterly fascinating and not really

very well documented before.

Now James Paris in Schroesbury UK on the Welsh borders has written a fascinating and very

well researched book about a man who was recruited by the British during World War II to be

effectively their astrologer and to try to get inside the mind of Adolf Hitler.

Now Hitler was said to be sort of interested but maybe not in these things but the story

of how the British side came to recruit somebody not from the UK to be an astrologer and

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