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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Can a love bird live alone?- 21 Nov 14

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered "why", then this is the hour for you. Sometimes simple, sometimes intelligent, but almost always entertaining, probably the best hour of radio you could ever download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is LBC, leading Britain's conversation.

0:06.3

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:09.2

Call 034-60-973.

0:14.4

Tweet at LBC.

0:16.8

Text 84850.

0:19.3

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien on LBC.

0:25.4

It's four minutes after 12 and you are listening to LBC where mystery hour is now upon us.

0:30.9

Let me make you a promise to start with. This is probably the only gold-plated pledge that is made on British radio routinely, weekly on this occasion.

0:40.9

If you listen to the rest of this broadcast, you will know more by 1 o'clock this afternoon than you do now.

0:46.0

Guaranteed, absolutely guaranteed, or you get your money back.

0:49.8

It may not be information that you're grateful for.

0:51.7

It may not be knowledge that you ever put to constructive use subsequently.

0:55.5

It may not even be stuff that you can remember this time tomorrow.

0:58.8

But you will indubitably by one o'clock today no more than you do now if you stay listening to Mystery Hour.

1:10.1

The way it works is this. You probably have bubbling away in your brain a question to which

1:17.3

you have failed to find an answer. It could be any form of question whatsoever. I'll give you a

1:21.6

quick word in a moment on what won't get on. But you know what I'm talking about. The newspaper

1:25.8

columns where people write in and say who, why, what, where, when, whither, when's, wherefore, what resulted, what happened?

1:31.3

Why do we do this? Where does that come from? What's that about?

1:33.3

And how come that and what and if and weather and with? All of those.

1:39.7

But you don't know the answer.

1:40.9

You might be able to find it by Googling, but in a way, this

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