Three minutes after 12 is the time. You are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where we embark now up on our weekly ventures into the unknown. Those opportunities don't come along very often. Well, they do. They come along every week. But apart from here, they don't come along very often, where you can achieve the sort of satisfaction, not ordinarily available anywhere on your radio dial. If you have bubbling away in the back of your brain,

a little question to which you know there must be an answer,

but you're damned if you can work out what it is,

well, this could be your absolution, your deliverance, your saviour.

Who, why, what, where, when, whither, wherefore, even the occasional when.

So whatever the question may be, as long as it is sort of sensible and interesting,

we'll put it on the board and we will try to get you an answer to it.

The number you need, and I've got phone lines free, 035,

because Caroline forgot to clear the board at the end of the last hour.

So all the people who normally pile in really early have been getting the engaged time,

which means all the new people, if they pile in now, could grab a place on the switchboard for the first time in recorded history.

I forgot to give you the number.

0345-6060973 is the number that you need.

Why do we do that, Jays?

Where does that come?

What's the origin of that?

How come, why, where, when, whither, wherefore, when's, what resulted, what happened,

anything goes. Science or trivia,

silliness or serious stuff. And if you hear somebody else ask a question to which you know the answer,

then do ring in and answer it. And if you are judged to be correct and you can provide evidence

of your credentials, by which I don't mean, you know, I've got a bag of gymnastics award for. I mean, how do you know the bit of

knowledge you just shared with us? And it can be because you did a PhD thesis on it or because you

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