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Boom, five minutes after 12 is the time, and this is your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction that no other radio program can provide.

If you've got a question that needs an answer, just bear with me a moment if you're new to this. If you're not, fill your boots. There's plenty of phone lines free.

034-60-60-973 is the number that you need. Remember, if your question is dull, or indeed,

if it's one we dealt with recently and can remember doing so, you'll be politely invited to jog on.

But only, only if it is dull or

repetitious. Otherwise, truly anything goes. You won't believe how far apart the goalposts are

on this. You could get an answer from a professor of the public understanding of science at a

prestigious university or just someone who saw the right program on the right TV station last night.

So think of the newspaper columns, the Q&As, the notes and queries, the sense that, well, you know, the practice that a reader writes in with a question, why do we do this?

Where does that come from?

Who, what, where, when, why, wherefore, whither, even the occasional whence, and then a couple of days or a couple of weeks or a couple of months later, other readers conspire to provide an answer.

You sort of cobble together all the various answers and hopefully get a definitive one.

We do things altogether more quickly here.

You ring in with a question, something that's got you befuddled. School holidays are still on, of course, so you might have been asked some of those uncomfortable parental questions that you don't know the answer to, but you're

not ready yet to allow your children to realise that you don't know everything, that omniscience

is not your middle name, so ring in, get the question, get an answer, pass it off as your

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