From London right across the world by webcast and podcast my name is Howard Hughes and this is the Return of the Unexplained.

Thank you very much for all the emails that I've had over these months that I haven't been here on the internet.

From people who heard the show before and liked it and wanted to come back to it and from people who just discovered the show for the very first time.

I've tried to email you back. I know that I wanted to emails that I haven't gone round to yet. I promise I will reply to all the emails.

And it's good of you to take time out to email me. Now the story of why I've been away for these last three months is simple.

Earlier this year I won an award for contribution to commercial radio in the UK.

Kind of milestone for me. I've been getting up at four o'clock for most of my working life.

4am to go to work. And and I've really enjoyed it. It has been my entire life.

But I decided after winning the award that it was time to maybe take a break.

So I've taken a few months out. I've done some traveling. I've enjoyed myself. I've done a few things that are very personal to me.

And now I'm getting back literally into a working mode. And these words that I'm speaking into a microphone now are the first such words in many months.

So it's a really interesting experience to have the old headphones on again and be talking into a broadcast microphone.

But for me, you know, it's meat and drink. I love it. It's been my life.

So in a way, I wonder if you can relate to this whenever you've taken a break, but it's some it's relieving to be back doing it.

Now this one is going to be a special. I hope it is. Let me know what you think.

I'm going to have on Richard C. Hogland, American space expert and a man who's got a best selling book in the United States.

Lifting the lid and blowing the covers off NASA, the North American space administration.

He says, for a start off, NASA was not set up to do what you think it was set up to do. And that is explore space.

It was set up for much more than that. And secondly, and leading on from that is that they've found things out there that they've known they were going to find.

They haven't told you or I about them. And they know about civilizations on the moon, for example, and many, many other things.

And it's all in the book. Richard C. Hogland's book has been so successful in America.

It's only been out a couple of months and it's into its fourth reprint now. And that's going some.

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