Well across the UK and around the world my name is Howard Hughes at the very back end of this year.

2022 and the unexplained the show is in a very different condition at the end of 2022

from when we started 2022 don't you think. And if we think back 12 months now I was sitting here

a year ago and I was coming to the end of two years doing my radio show from my apartment from

this flat and it had become a very intense period where I didn't really see very many people

and didn't do very many things and I realized towards the end of it all through the lockdowns

and everything else and the working from home that it's not entirely a good thing for you.

I think I was becoming a little dislocated from the world I suppose is the way to put it and I

think you do need human contact you know even though I was getting that from people I talk with

people that I interview colleagues that I would hear down the line I think the whole process of

actually meeting people is pretty important to us as human beings. Somebody once wrote

I know that you'll be the first to tell me who that was was it John Dunn how that no man is an

island and I think in terms of my radio work and broadcasting work I'd started to feel that I could

be that I could do everything you know by myself for myself and I think I was probably wrong about

that I think we do need to have connections in this world so during 2022 I started maybe you did

to put some balance back into my life so we did the radio show up until April and before that I've

been having conversations with the radio station which is now a TV station about the possibility of

moving to television because they were and my view on that all the way through was I'm sorry I can't

do that so I think when the radio station ends and it becomes TV it's going to have to be goodbye

because I don't want to be seen and I don't want to do television it's not my thing I'm a radio guy

and that was my line through all the conversations that we had from February all the way through until

the end of March really and something happened something changed they said to me okay there is

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