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 very much for your very, very kind emails recently.

I will go through some of those in a future edition, but just to say hello to Lynn.

And thank you very much for your email recently about my tinnitus.

I will be in touch about that.

It is an ongoing theme. Tinnitus, of course, I've talked about before here.

I know a lot of you suffer with this ringing in the ears that basically put my career on hold around about April this year.

And I haven't been able to work on radio since then, but hopefully getting back into action now.

Although it might be useful to those of you who have tinnitus to know that I went to a school reunion in Liverpool.

I haven't seen any of these people, the teachers or the people I went to school with since we were all 18.

And it was in a very noisy venue and the tremendous volume of noise there set me back a little.

So I think the truth of it is that concerts or movies or anything like that that I go to in future.

Got to be earplugs. That'll be the way to go.

Thank you very much for your good feedback as I say to the last couple of shows.

And thank you for the support that you're giving me because you're making me believe that the work that I'm doing here is worthwhile.

I really do want to build this as we go into 2013.

I do have an announcement, a small one to make here, but it's a significant one.

My webmaster Adam Cornwell at Creative hotspot in Liverpool, a top guy who's given me such tremendous help over these last few years.

Tells me that and I can tell you now that in the last year, the unexplained has had half a million online listening hours.

Now that's half a million that we know about and that equates with a small to medium sized radio station in the UK, which is fantastic.

Bearing in mind how we do this show, it's only me.

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