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.

Thank you for returning to the website and the show.

Thank you for your support, your many emails and your donations.

Please keep all of those things coming. Go to www.theunexplained.tv and thank you very much to Uri Geller for making time to do edition 57 with us.

Uri, I know your time is precious so to give me an hour of it.

It was a real knockout and thank you very, very much indeed.

A lot of listeners to this show, very appreciative of that. We'll return to Uri.

At some future date, we'll also be returning to Richard C. Hoagland.

Had a lot of emails from you asking, it's been a while since Richard's been on. Where is he? What's he doing?

We're going to update you on his life and his work to do with space very soon here on the Unexplained.

That is work in progress.

As you say in the US, this time round we're going to deal with the subject I've wanted to talk about on this show for five years now.

And quite simply, I couldn't find anybody who was skilled in these things to talk about it.

Now I have. I got an email from a publisher last week and I get a lot of those but this peaked my interest.

It was about a lady called Wendy Brown. Now Wendy lives in a great big sparsely populated state in the US called Maine.

It's way up north, north of Boston. In the winter time, it's beautiful. In the summer time, it's beautiful.

You have to see that state. Maine is just incredible. Wendy has written a book called Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs.

In other words, confront this scenario, if you will. What happens if the power goes out?

What happens if all those nice things that we depend on like the internet, turning on an electric light whenever you need it,

turning on nice roads in your nice car, buying food from the supermarket, which is open 24-7. What happens if you don't have that stuff?

Well, recently people in places like Japan and to an extent in New Zealand had to confront exactly that.

People who thought that they had nice suburban lives and would never have to.

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