This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation, Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Four minutes after 12. I'm sorry to labour the point, but so many people tuning in relatively new or even box fresh,

that I do have to explain some of the stuff that you might already know.

But this is my mystery I got invented, so that we could fill at least an hour on a day

when we're not allowed to talk about the major news story unfolding in the country.

And it stuck all these years later. We still do it every week because it's so much fun.

Why is it so much fun? I don't know.

It's something to do with the journey rather than the destination. But it is in simplest terms,

a phone in that involves you ringing in with a question that needs an answer and then other people

ringing in with the answers. But somehow it ends up being much more than the sum of its part.

The alchemy of live radio coupled with the

quality of contributions and even perhaps the occasional charismatic intervention from Keith,

even more occasionally me. But hey-ho, if you're new to this, I can say you're in for a treat.

I'm not even going to bother with the spiel, because I mean, it's all there and the phone lines are already full. Actually, that's not true. There's one line free. If you want

to grab line 9, you can on 0345, 6060973. Otherwise, if you hear a question to which you know

the answer, do ring in and provide it. If your qualifications for providing the answer

are exceptional, exemplary, incredible,

you'll get a Rayliota.

We had a lovely non-mystery out of Rayleighota this week.

To be honest with you, they're often my favourites.

They're harder to award.

But we were talking about the 400 million pounds of Iranian government money that we hung on to back in, I think,

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