This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation, mystery hour with James O'Brien.

It's three minutes after 12, and it is your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not ordinarily available, anywhere else on your radio dial.

I've got a question, I can remember it. Can anyone else remember the question

I came up with yesterday? Keith had to remind me that I had a question. He couldn't remember

what the question was. But I can remember what the question was. I just couldn't remember that

I had a question. That is why we worked together like Batman and Robin. And if you have a question

that needs an answer, then ring in with it now. 034-6060973 is the number you need.

If you're familiar with this feature, if you're not, then allow me just a moment or two to set out my stall.

It's, I used to say, I haven't said this for a long time, like the newspaper columns,

which don't really exist anymore because of search engines where you'd write in and say,

why do we do this? Where does that come from? What's the reason for that? And then another reader,

sometimes weeks later, would write in with an answer. But we do it live. You'll get your answer today

if things go well. However, you are not allowed to use search engines. So it's a sort of celebration of education or knowledge.

That's all.

So, you know, these days they can take their calculators into maths exams

and they can take their smartphones into English lessons.

They can look everything up.

The idea of having to memorize.

My mum can still do the full list of kings and queens of England off the top of her head.

I can't imagine anybody under the age of 60 could do that these days unless...

Oh, no, they could because they've learned it on horrible histories, actually.

Yeah, but you take my point.

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