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.

And a very happy new year to you from the very stormy looking Londoners I record these

words, hope that you had a good holiday period if you were working that I hope it wasn't

too bad and maybe you're getting a break now and if you were off and just enjoying yourself,

then I hope that it was everything that you wanted it to be and now we're back into

things. The TV show resumes with a full show on the 8th of January Sunday, so 10pm then for

the TV show and the podcasts are resuming right here right now. Somebody famous one saying,

you can tell me who that was. Remember that song right here right now.

So topic on this edition of the unexplained is I think a very good one for the beginning of the

new year and that is 2023 in space. 2022 was an enormous year of space news. It seemed to be coming

at us with three or four stories every week that was never a shortage of material and a lot of

really exciting stuff from the era of private space travel for civilians, those who could afford it,

to the idea that we're going back to the moon very soon and we've been rounded now of course

with Orion and that was a very successful mission for NASA and everybody involved in it.

Plus progress on Mars and many other things including and maybe above all the rest the amazing

images that have come to us in the last year from the James Webb Space Telescope. We thought that

Hubble was great and it was but James Webb has been showing us space in a way that we've never

seen it before. It's almost as if a veil has been lifted away from all of this. So I thought I

would talk about some hot topics with Andrew Lound, our space expert from the TV show and here

on the podcast course we can give them a bit more time. So I think that is a good thing to do.

So we'll be connecting to the Midlands and to Andrew Lound very soon and doing that. Thank you very

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