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My name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Well, I can tell you it's pouring with rain, blowing a gale outside here.

The United Kingdom has been gripped by storms within the last few days.

And hopefully they're going to pass pass but my thoughts are definitely with

those people who've been flooded out or stormed out of their homes. A lot of travel

disruption too as I record these words. Now as you know there won't be any shows for the next

ten or twelve days so what I want to do during that period is leave you with

something very special and I'm doing this in a bit of a rush so I hope I

don't sound too rushed.

Two interviews back to back with very special and important people.

One, the astronaut Chris Hadfield, who's got a brand new fiction book out that is called The Defector. It's got tons of detail in it and we

have a talk about space and the book and life and everything in that conversation and that

will be followed by the thick end of an hour

with the British astronaut Tim Peek,

who was also good a book out.

It is essentially the story of space exploration.

So two conversations on this edition of the Unexplained, I'm going to run them just exactly

as they were recorded back to back.

First of all, Chris Hadfield and then after that Tim Peek.

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