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The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Edition 664 - Stephen Davis

The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

News

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Acclaimed investigative journalist, Stephen Davis, has spent years researching the 1994 Estonia ferry tragedy in the Baltic. Hundreds died when the vessel sank in 1994. Stephen - who is based in New Zealand - has never been satisfied with the official explanation and believes the truth is complex and murky. *A shorter version of this conversation originally aired on the radio show in April 2021.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast

0:06.7

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

0:12.8

Well, change of the seasons looking out the window now bit of a breeze blowing, trees

0:17.6

are still green, but I think before long they're going to be turning brown because it's

0:21.8

getting cooler.

0:23.5

Definitely this morning as I'm recording these words, I'm recording this at half past

0:28.0

nine in the morning there's a bit of a chill in my apartment where I'm doing these recordings.

0:33.6

So that I think is a sign of things to come and I know that in the southern hemisphere

0:37.5

got many listeners in places like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa.

0:42.4

You're going to be getting the change there too.

0:44.4

I think it's moving from very rainy conditions for you to something warmer as you will know.

0:49.9

So we had our long hot summer and now who knows what the winter will bring.

0:54.0

It's enough weather talk.

0:55.5

This edition of the unexplained is a conversation that I recorded for my radio show when I did

0:59.4

it from the very place that I'm sitting right now when the show was three hours long and

1:04.1

very different from what it is now as a TV show.

1:07.3

And it is the story of a maritime disaster.

1:12.2

A terrible one, one of the worst in European history, the sinking of the ferry, the MS Estonia.

1:18.5

Wednesday 28th September 1994.

1:22.8

Every early in the morning about 10 to 1 in the morning between then and 10 to 2 in the

1:27.4

morning, this whole thing unfolded.

1:30.3

The ship was crossing the Baltic from Tallinn in Estonia to Stockholm in Sweden.

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