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Time is four minutes after 12. Mystery Hour is upon us. Let Joy be uncomfined. How does this work?

Well, it's, it really couldn't be simpler. And given the conversation we were having in the last hour, it's sort of agreeably apposite, isn't it?

The idea behind this feature is as simple as all the best ideas usually are.

You currently have a question bubbling away somewhere in your consciousness, in the back of your mind, or possibly on the tip of your tongue.

And you know that question must have an answer.

It might be something quite high-brow, intellectual, scientific. It might be something

relatively silly, something that you've observed recently and not understood. Whatever that question

is, if you believe it has an answer, this is probably the best chance you'll get this year

of getting that answer.

So whatever the who, the where, the why, the when, the whither, the where for the what, whatever the question may be, ring me with it now on 0345-6060973. It gets incredibly busy this, but as I

try always on the programme, I give you the phone number when you need it. When I've got phone lines free, I will mention the phone number to you.

And Thursday between 12 and 1 is busier usually than any other hour of the station's output during the week.

But it still obviously frees up the occasional phone line.

And when you hear me say the number, it means we've got one.

If you've got a question, get it on the board as quickly as possible if you're new to this let me remind you or tell

you for the first time in fact that if you hear somebody else ask a question to which you know the

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