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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 48 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 from Global, leading Britain's conversation, Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:10.0

Five minutes after 12 is the time, your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not only available in a...

0:19.0

I just got distracted then, you could tell, couldn't you?

0:21.6

I'm not very professional of this.

0:22.6

I just got distracted because I just received the message telling me that it's now on sale in John Lewis,

0:28.6

the Mystery Out Borkave. How cool is that?

0:30.6

We started doing this.

0:32.6

God knows how many years ago, because there was a by-election on, and you can't talk about the news when there's a by-election. There was rather a slightly more laissez-faire attitude to programming

0:43.2

at LBC in those days. In other words, you could get away with murder. And so we said, why don't

0:47.2

we just do a kind of, people can ring in, ask a question, other people ring in and answer it. I said, yeah, all right, that'd be nice.

0:56.6

We had another feature back in the day where you could ring in and say,

0:59.0

I've lost, I need something, and we'd see if someone else had it.

1:00.1

We called that The Treasure Hunt.

1:03.3

I don't think that I'll be making a comeback anytime soon, but it was quite fun.

1:12.5

It was like if you'd lost the jug from your T-set, and it wasn't being made anymore. But when we came up with the idea, I mean, who'd have thought that a decade and a half later, you'd actually be able to walk into John Lewis and buy the Mystery Hour

1:18.4

board game, which I've just literally in the last 10 seconds being told, is now available.

1:24.5

You can also, of course, buy it from mystery hour. Dotco.uk.

1:28.3

And it'll be dispatched to you tootsweet. Or you could win one by being my favourite contributor to this week's edition of Mystery Hour. Obviously, that's a lot harder to achieve than simply walking into John Lewis or going to mistryout.co.uk.

1:44.4

All that other website where they sell stuffer.

1:46.7

The one named after a rainforest.

1:48.6

Six minutes after 12 is the time.

1:50.8

The terms and conditions for the competition,

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