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The promise that I issue to you is that by 1 o'clock today you will know more and you do now.

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour. by one o'clock today, you will know more than you do now.

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Four minutes after 12, this is LBC 97.3.

And this is your weekly opportunity to get an answer to the question that has had you befuddled, baffled, confused, even perhaps discombobulated for the longest time.

Bear with me on this, because I just want to take a moment to explain to you if you're new to it, exactly how it works.

It's a lot more than the sum of its parts, isn't it, Mystery Hour?

It's the radio equivalent of those newspaper columns where a reader will write in and ask a question which has had them, you know, confused for a while. But we don't do stuff like, we'll be doing it for a while now, so a lot of the questions have been answered already. You can see the archive at lbc.co.com. It's a very jolly read, actually, even not in the hour that we're actually doing it on air.

It's a lovely little retrospective look at some of the questions that we've had in the past.

That's over on the website. But it's not sort of why don't you see any white dog poo anymore or why don't you see baby.

But you know the hardy perennial. We don't do those. So don't waste tempers ringing in with those

sort of questions. You'll be surprised to learn that the most regular contributor to this feature

is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Brighton. I mentioned

that, not to sort of blow smoke up anybody's fundament, but simply to point out that don't hold

back from asking a question on the grounds that you think it's too scientific or serious or clever.

We take some very silly questions. We also take some very serious questions.

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