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 very much for being part of my show and indeed part of my life.

So many regular listeners getting in touch and so many people who are just discovering

the show and like I always say, I keep hearing from people who've been listening for years

and are now telling me for the first time that they're there gives me a nice big warm feeling

when they do that. Now I hope your preparations for the festive period, if you're celebrating

it are good. I must admit I tend not to think about it particularly.

I don't know for me, it makes me sound like the Grinch really, but Christmas is kind of

a day that comes and goes in many, many ways. I have this memory of my first Christmas

that I spent in London and I was working because I was young and needed the experience

I was doing overnight national news on independent radio news out of London. And I have one memory

that I can share with you at this Christmas time because it stays with me and I guess

it'll be with me to my dying day of driving in on Christmas Eve. Actually no, on Christmas

day itself of driving into London when you could on Christmas day and pausing at the traffic

lights near the big Trafalgar Square Christmas tree full of lights and looking around me in

my little VW Beetle car. I had a VW Beetle that was a couple of decades old by that point

but was trusty and my friend in many ways took me everywhere and I paused in the darkness

in the crispy cold and just looked around me that was not another soul. There were some

neon lights on buildings, they were all locked up and I just thought how wonderful London

looked at that point and because it was Christmas night and I was about to do a big night shift,

only I was seeing that. And that was a very special memory because we didn't have, you know,

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