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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Do bell ringers play sheet music? - 27 Mar 14

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered "why", then this is the hour for you. Sometimes simple, sometimes intelligent, but almost always entertaining, probably the best hour of radio you could ever download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is LBC.

0:04.6

Leading Britain's Conversation,

0:07.1

call 0845-60-1973,

0:11.7

tweet at LBC.

0:14.2

Text 84850.

0:16.8

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien on LBC.

0:22.5

Five minutes after 12, and you are listening to LBC,

0:25.9

where probably for the first time since 7 o'clock last night,

0:28.4

we'll take a little light relief from the analysis of last night's brilliant debate.

0:32.7

I'm sure my colleagues will continue with that throughout the afternoon.

0:36.0

But I would like to invite you now to join me in a voyage into the unknown mystery hour,

0:41.3

your weekly opportunity to get an answer to the question that has had you puzzled for the longest time.

0:45.6

Let me remind you of the phone number, 0845-6060973,

0:49.9

and just to wet your appetite if you're new to this feature by telling you that it's now been singled out for five-star treatment by the telegraph, the observer, and most recently the Metro newspaper.

1:01.3

Find out just what Mystery Hour is all about after this.

1:06.6

I say after this, is that the right thing to say when all you're going to get is a done, done, done, I say after this, done, here I am again. Is that fair enough to say after this, is that the right thing to say when all you're going to get is a done, done, done, done. I say after this, done, done, here I am again.

1:13.1

Is that fair enough to say after this?

1:14.8

Or are you expecting something a little more significant, like a travel bulletin or some news?

1:18.9

After this, dun, dun, dun, here I am again.

1:21.5

And it's Mystery Hour, your weekly opportunity.

1:23.3

I said that already.

1:24.2

The way it works is this. You're familiar with the newspaper columns, I'm sure, where in readers submit questions of the who, why, what, where, when, variety. Why do we do that? What's the meaning of this? Where does that come from? If you did this, what would happen? Banga-bing, bang-a-boom, bang-a-bing. And then someone else writes in, sometimes years later, decades, millennia. Sometimes it takes thousands and thousands of years for another reader

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