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 being part of my show, thank you for the ongoing support and the messages

that you sent.

Sorry, these podcast, this one and the one that follows it, are slightly delayed.

There have been a number of reasons for that partly-mitanatus problem where I've had to

go very easy with all sound that comes to me in headphones.

I'm not going to bore you with the details of what happened.

We are where we are, I had to see a specialist during this week about this and I'm on the

journey as they say and hopefully this will improve.

Hence some delay.

I also had a run of technical problems and guest booking issues and it all seemed to come

at once.

So do forgive me for that, but we're back on track now.

But crucially and more importantly than anything else, we are in a period of extended national

mourning in the United Kingdom for the passing of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

It was expected, of course, we knew that her Majesty was getting older, 96, is a tremendous

age to reach.

But nevertheless a shock for all of us when the news finally broke.

Even for those of us who haven't followed every detail over our lives of royal affairs,

the Queen was different and special, I think, to all of us and symbolised what this nation

meant and still does and always will.

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