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.

Well, recording this on a day when Spring seems a long way away. It's just the very beginning of March, but it's damn cold today.

I don't know what happened to the weather settings on the master thermometer, but I've got the heating on right now.

For as long as I can afford to have it on that is this evening, but that's a whole other issue. I hope that everything is okay with you.

I'm going to name check a few people on this edition of the unexplained. I'm going to bring you here a conversation I had with a really excellent guest, a man who I only discovered less than a week ago.

His name Andrew Freck-Noy, F-R-A-K-N-O-I. He is an astronomer, but he's an astronomer with a remarkable gift and the gift is to be honest.

And the gift is to put the most complicated things that baffled people like black holes into language that you and I can easily understand.

I say you and I. That's a little presumptuous of me because you may well be a physics professor. You may well understand these things clearly.

I don't, but I need to have them interpreted and explained for me.

Andrew Freck-Noy does this brilliantly and I tell you, I heard him on a radio station last week and I thought let's get him on the show.

I did part of the radio show last Sunday and I want you to hear that now.

Thank you very much to all of you really for the lovely emails and guest suggestions and other things that you've been sending me lately.

Holly in Rock Island, Illinois has asked me, do I know about the third party alien alliance? Holly, I don't.

I wonder where I can get more information about that. Maybe you know something about this and can let me know.

Rachel in lovely home, Firth in Yorkshire, nice to hear from you, David, nice to hear from you, Alistair, Greg and Debbie too.

And you, if you've been in touch recently, it's really nice to hear from you and thank you very much for everything that you've done for me.

And in particular for the support for being there for me, it is strange and I've said this before so I won't go on too long about it.

But the fact that you know I am there doing podcasts and radio shows seems to be important to a lot of you.

And the fact that you're there listening to them is a great support for me.

You know, like a lot of us, life went off the rails two years ago exactly.

I remember going into work the last time I went into London to do the radio show.

And it was like going into a ghost town because we knew that on that Sunday night, imminently restrictions were about to be brought in on the Monday, I think.

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