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 for returning to the show. Spring is nearly here in the Northern Hemisphere.

We had a long, cold, snowy winter up here and now things are beginning to improve.

The blossoms are starting to appear where I live and the temperatures are starting to climb

and by next week they're telling us, the temperatures ought to be around 20 degrees in some parts

of the UK, that's 68 Fahrenheit, 20 Celsius. That's not bad. Let's hope it happens.

Still some rain to come though, so that's the weather report. Thank you very much for your

emails. I'm going to name check quite a few of you in the next edition of the unexplained

if we can fit those things in but be assured that I'm acting on all of your emails, making

contact with various people, some of them very keen to come on the show, a little bit

of foot dragging in some quarters but I'm very persuasive so hopefully we'll be able

to get those people on but I do react to everything that you tell me in your emails and in

fact the show we're about to do has been suggested by a couple of emailers to the show,

so thank you for that. I'll get into that in just a second. These are very, very turbulent

times. A lot of high emotion seems to be running in the air at the moment and we're only

a couple of months into the air aren't we? First of all there is high tension in the UK

because of the death of a woman who managed to polarise the nation. I don't think that's

a political statement. That's just a fact. Margaret Hilda Fatcher, Baroness Fatcher. If you live

in America you will remember her many well publicised meetings with President Ronald Reagan

and the special rapport the pair of them had during times like the invasion of the Forkland

Islands. There was a great air of cabaretary incorporation between the two of them. Well,

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