Thank God it's mystery hour.

0345-60-90973 is the number you need if you have a question that needs an answer, a mystery that needs a solution.

And by that, I don't mean, how can I change the stockcock in my air in cupboard?

I mean something that involves a who or a why or a where or a when, a whither, a where-for or a whence.

You've got a good chance of getting through, but there's no increased chance of getting on air unless it's a good question. If the question is dull, it won't get

through, which generally means if it's about motoring or if it's something that we've answered

relatively recently, recently enough for me to be able to remember, you won't get on the board.

Otherwise, anything goes. If you're new to this, it's the radio equivalent of those newspaper and magazine articles where a reader will write in and say,

what's the origin of this?

Or why do we do that whenever we see this?

Or why?

It could be incredibly complicated.

Some of our most popular contributors include the Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Brighton.

He hasn't been on for a while, actually.

Professor Hal, I hope he's all right. And a couple of professors as a professor of robotics

over at Middle-Sex University. I think we went, we got a hat trick of professors not too long ago,

earlier this year. I could be wrong, but that, or it could just be something you saw on the

telly last night. So someone else rings in with a question and says, why does that? And you saw our Mythbusters, or you saw it on, I don't know, any program at all, it could

have been Balimori.

But that's the reason why you know.

So when I say, what are your qualifications, it doesn't mean, you know, I've got a PhD in

quantum mechanics or a bag of gymnastics award for.

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