Hello, I'm currently out of office.

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.

Yours, Toby.

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.

Atoll protected.

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation.

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien

It's three minutes after 12

and it's your final mystery hour of the year

although we've already got a Steward's Inquiry

which is a bit odd because we haven't had any questions or answers yet

but Christine in Kingston has been in touch

to challenge my suggestion that it's too late to order it in time for Christmas

she says James I ordered the Mystery Hour board game yesterday during your show when you mentioned it. Are you sure,

Christine? I'm not sure I've ever mentioned it during the show, have I? And it arrived,

I happily received it one hour ago. So maybe you'll get lucky, but I don't think we can issue

any guarantees. What I can do is guarantee at least one laugh out loud moment

before one o'clock today and the certainty that you will know more by then than you do now.

This has gone a bit old school, haven't we, for the last one of the year. This used to be the opening spiel

for every single episode of Mystery Hour. But it's true, you will have a giggle and you will know more than you do now

may not be knowledge that you're grateful for or even knowledge that you can remember by ten past one

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