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

Three minutes after 12 is the time, and indeed it is Mystery Hour, your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

Do you think I could do that? You know when they say if you chop a chicken's head off,

it carries on running around the farmyard for a while

because the message hasn't reached the nervous system

that the brain is no longer attached?

If that happened to me, do you think I could do that line?

I've issued it so fluently for so long now.

Well, I hope we'll never find out.

Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

What does that mean, James, in layman's terms? Well, it means you've got a question bubbling away in the back of your brain and somebody else listening to the program will know the answer.

It could be a who, a why, a what, a where, a whence, a whither, or even the occasional wear for. The only rule is,

really, that whoever you are lucky enough to speak to, when the phone is answered, has to think

your question is interesting. That's all. And then if you hear someone ask a question,

you know the answer to, fill your boots. Ring in and answer it. No one's allowed to look

anything up, okay? No one is allowed to look anything up, okay?

No one is allowed to look anything up.

That's the only real rule.

We try to guard against dullness and increasingly less, so against repetition.

My short-term memory is not what it used to be.

My long-term memory is increasingly wholly.

So attempts by me in the early days of this radio feature to guard against

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