Across the UK, across Continental North America, at around the world, on the internet by webcast

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

Thank you for returning to my show, thank you for the feedback that is still coming in

about edition 78. I wanted to get another show out to you as soon as possible and I'm

producing this at the start of the Easter period. For a whole variety of reasons that ties

in very neatly with the guests that I have now, here in the UK, an author called Thomas

de Vessolo has made some headlines because of a book he's written and got out here in

the UK and in America about the shroud of Turin. Now before you start to yawl and say you've

heard everything that there's been said and written about the shroud of Turin, perhaps

you haven't, because this man is not a researcher, he's not a mystery tracker of any kind, he's

actually a Cambridge academic, he's an art historian and his specialty is the 14th century,

which curiously is the period when the shroud of Turin first appeared to most people's attention.

And he looks at this in a completely different way. He has got some media coverage in the UK

this week and that is how I was able to make contact with him because he is being featured

at the moment and so I thought I'd put him on the show. First of all, I asked his publisher if

he was available. They said yes and that's why we're doing this show now. So edition 79, featuring

Thomas de Vessolo, 14th century art historian from Cambridge UK, a great seat of learning in this

country. I think you'll find what he's got to say, very interesting, possibly controversial.

I would certainly like to hear from you your reaction to this. If you want to tell me about this

or anything to do with the show, go to the website www.theunexplained.tv, www.theunexplained.tv.

There you can send me an email. Give me guest suggestions. You've sent me some really nice guest

suggestions recently and thank you for those. I welcome all of your feedback, whatever it is.

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