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.

You know, those words I came up with I think is the unexplained.

You know, those words I came up with, I think, from Edition 2 of the unexplained.

The first one I did, I didn't have a theme tune and I just went straight into it. Now, over the years, those words have become part of the theater of this show.

And I do believe that radio or broadcasting,

whether you're doing serious news or playing records on the air and I've done all of those things and more.

It is a little bit of theatre. You owe people a show whenever you go on.

If you think that you can just sit there and say anything you like

exactly how you like and don't give it a bit of polish, not that I'm saying

I ever am capable of doing that, but I think you're wrong.

There has to be an element of showmanship about it.

And the truth of it is that the person that you are when you're doing a podcast or you're going in front of a microphone on the radio or doing a commentary on TV,

as my great hero in broadcasting Terry Wogan used to say,

you have to be yourself, but a slight exaggeration of

yourself, slightly bigger. And that's the place that I think after all of these years for good or bad that I've got to. So here we are

at Edition 800 of the unexplained and you know that we had a big debate about which

big guest should we try to get for it and should I do my life story and at the end of the

day I've come to a decision and maybe I will make a different decision if and when we get to

addition 1000 but the decision that I've come to is that I'm going to do a slightly longer but regular show and it will be a show that features recent material that was on the radio.

But if anything showcases the stuff that I do, this probably does.

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