Fiona, hello. Hi there. How are you . Im very well, thank you. And welcome back to newscast. Thank you. But in previous, well, in previous episodes where weve had about 50 minutes, weve now got about a0 minutes. So good job. The world is quite chaotic at the moment. Theres plenty of Trouble Spots that we can that we can look at. Um, but before we go on a tour around the world, ijust wanted to do a bit of a bit of your, your kind of personal history. And so what was happening in County Durham in the 80s, when you were a teenager and you decided that russian was the thing that you wanted to get into . Well, look, that was the period that actually its the subject of a Netflix Series at the moment about the Cold War and the bomb, where we had the War Scares with the Soviet Union, the 1980s, you know, there were several. But the most memorable, at least from my perspective, was about 1983, when you just could palpably feel the sort of tension internationally, even, you know, as a kind of a
Suspecting it might be debris from outer space, dutifully brought the pieces to a nearby military base. The next day, they issued a Press Release confirming the material was from a flying disk, a flying saucer. News agencies around the world announced the shocking find. Then within hours, the u. S. Military changed its assessment of what these pieces were. Announce that the debris from outside was nothing more than a Weather Balloon, not a big deal, nothing extraterrestrial. It was he telling the truth about that . Looks like he may have been, it may have been a Weather Balloon but that was not the end of the story. The u. S. Military has gathered evidence on a remarkable number of puzzling aerial phenomenon most of which were definitely not Weather Balloons. Unexplained flying objects that buzzed over u. S. Military bases, missile sites, ships, submarines underwater seem to defy any known human technology. The pentagon has said next to nothing about any of this in public instead of co
Suspecting it might be debris from outer space, dutifully brought the pieces to a nearby military base. The next day, they issued a Press Release confirming the material was from a flying disk, a flying saucer. News agencies around the world announced the shocking find. Then within hours, the u. S. Military changed its assessment of what these pieces were. Announce that the debris from outside was nothing more than a Weather Balloon, not a big deal, nothing extraterrestrial. It was he telling the truth about that . Looks like he may have been, it may have been a Weather Balloon but that was not the end of the story. The u. S. Military has gathered evidence on a remarkable number of puzzling aerial phenomenon most of which were definitely not Weather Balloons. Unexplained flying objects that buzzed over u. S. Military bases, missile sites, ships, submarines underwater seem to defy any known human technology. The pentagon has said next to nothing about any of this in public instead of co
Suspecting it might be debris from outer space, dutifully brought the pieces to a nearby military base. The next day, they issued a Press Release confirming the material was from a flying disk, a flying saucer. News agencies around the world announced the shocking find. Then within hours, the u. S. Military changed its assessment of what these pieces were. Announce that the debris from outside was nothing more than a Weather Balloon, not a big deal, nothing extraterrestrial. It was he telling the truth about that . Looks like he may have been, it may have been a Weather Balloon but that was not the end of the story. The u. S. Military has gathered evidence on a remarkable number of puzzling aerial phenomenon most of which were definitely not Weather Balloons. Unexplained flying objects that buzzed over u. S. Military bases, missile sites, ships, submarines underwater seem to defy any known human technology. The pentagon has said next to nothing about any of this in public instead of co
Suspecting it might be debris from outer space, dutifully brought the pieces to a nearby military base. The next day, they issued a Press Release confirming the material was from a flying disk, a flying saucer. News agencies around the world announced the shocking find. Then within hours, the u. S. Military changed its assessment of what these pieces were. Announce that the debris from outside was nothing more than a Weather Balloon, not a big deal, nothing extraterrestrial. It was he telling the truth about that . Looks like he may have been, it may have been a Weather Balloon but that was not the end of the story. The u. S. Military has gathered evidence on a remarkable number of puzzling aerial phenomenon most of which were definitely not Weather Balloons. Unexplained flying objects that buzzed over u. S. Military bases, missile sites, ships, submarines underwater seem to defy any known human technology. The pentagon has said next to nothing about any of this in public instead of co