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.

What we've had about three weeks of grey skies here in London, we have now crossed over

from August into September, we're looking at most of 2021 now in the rearview mirror,

and it's a year that's gone, there's me snapping my fingers like that.

God, let's hope that, well, no, I'm not going to say let's hope 2022 is better.

Let's just see what 2022 delivers, but I cannot believe how quickly you may feel the same this year

as gone. Now, what I wanted to do on this edition of the unexplained is catch up on a few items

from my radio show that I wanted to put here for posterity because you may not have heard them

and I'd like them to stay here. The first one is an update on so-called Havana Syndrome

that if you're in North America and parts of Europe, you may well have heard about.

This is the idea that potentially and possibly some kind of directed energy weapon

or something is being used against members of teams who work for various governments,

including the US and Canada in various foreign locations, hence the name Havana Syndrome.

The problems that people experience are neurological headaches and that sort of thing,

but the man who's done a lot of research into this, possibly the words leading researcher into it,

is Dr. James Giordano, professor of neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington.

So we've got him first. Then after that, we've got Niku Madhousudan, reader in astrophysics

at exoplanetary science at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, about a massive

space story maybe the year's biggest astronomers discovering a new class of planets that may be

more likely to host life will get into that with Dr. Niku Madhousudan from Cambridge University.

Then my longer conversation with Dan Baldwin, the Douser in the United States, will hear all about

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