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The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Episode 598 - David Leigh - John Darwin "Canoe Man" Mystery

The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

News

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

John Darwin shocked the world when he faked his own death in a "canoe accident" and, with his wife's collusion, thought he'd pulled off a famous fraud... But determined work by acclaimed British journalist and writer David Leigh led to Darwin's discovery - in Panama. Now ITV is making a film of the so-called "canoe man" deception. This is the story of how David Leigh found Darwin and his wife.

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

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

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Very nearly Christmas, you might well be hearing this across the Christmas season.

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And if you are, and if you are one who celebrates Christmas, I wish you a very happy Christmas.

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I wish you the best of the season, and I wish you a good 2022.

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Thank you very much for all of the emails, keep them coming, please know that even though I'm a little bit behind on the email traffic,

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I get to see, read and digest every single email that you send in.

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So if you do want to contact me, please go to the website, designed and created by Adam.

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Adam, thank you for your hard work on the show over this last year.

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1:01.0

I'm snowed under and stuck with stuff at the moment.

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And as you know, I'm coming up with the ideas for the radio shows and booking all the guests for the podcast now.

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So it's been pretty full on.

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And I'm kind of looking forward to just unplugging for a couple of days.

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You know, I'm not going anywhere. I haven't been anywhere for, I can't even remember.

1:19.0

You know, I'll be here, but I just want to kind of turn my brain off for a couple of days.

1:24.0

That's going to be very hard for me because I don't know about you, but I'm one of these people.

1:28.0

I always like to be connected with the news and doing things because doing the news was my livelihood for years and years and years.

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It's all I know, but I'm going to try because I think there's an awful lot of stuff to avoid this Christmas.

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