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The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Edition 792 - James Burke In 2024

The Unexplained With Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

News

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A catchup with legendary tv space and science broadcaster James Burke. James pioneered television space and science coverage in the UK and later became known in the US and worldwide. He is the great explainer. So what are his thoughts on the "tomorrow's world" that we now live in?...

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Across the UK, across Continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast and by podcast.

0:08.0

My name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

0:11.0

Thank you very much for being part of my show, being part of this worldwide family,

0:16.6

and you've certainly demonstrated that over this last week.

0:19.0

I will get into that in just a moment.

0:21.0

Looking at the weather, outside my window to my left. a can be milky. A little touch of blue behind it all, but the one important thing that's happened in the last few days is we appear to have had the dawning of spring.

0:40.0

So outside my front door, I have got got loads not quite a carpet but a lot of daffodils right outside the the block and

0:49.0

There are many other spring flowers that seem to have appeared almost overnight.

0:53.0

So I think that things are beginning to improve a little early, but nice all the same,

0:58.0

and spring is on the way. Let's hope it's not all spoiled by a big freeze.

1:02.0

Some of the newspapers love to make headlines by saying, not Half the time it's a load of tripe as my dad used to sit a load of tripe he'd say.

1:15.0

You know half the time it is, but look I don't know.

1:17.8

We'll see.

1:18.8

Thank you for your emails, your suggestions, your thoughts about the show.

1:22.5

We had a bit of a debate recently,

1:24.8

and it's one that we had before years ago

1:27.4

when the show was quite new,

1:29.2

and I was finding my way and feeling my feet, they say and the debate was about the way that I

1:36.4

start the show do I talk with you about what's going on with me how things are or

1:41.0

do I just say he is a guest here's a topic talk to me guest which I

1:47.4

think is and I've given it a lot of consideration lately I just think is not a presentation it's not a show that's just content and I

1:57.0

think we've always been a bit more than content here we've been a kind of

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