on LBC.

Three minutes after 12 is the time and let mysteries be solved.

Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction not ordinarily available anywhere

on your radio dial the who, why, what, where, when, whither, whence.

Even perhaps, I say this every week, the occasional wear-for, we've never had a wear-for.

We've had a wear-for? We've had withers galore.

Wences, wheres, wise. Wise, mostly wise. If you're new to this feature, you're probably wondering what on earth I'm talking about. Let me enlighten you. It's the radio equivalent of those newspaper features where, or magazine features, where a reader will write in with a question, why do we

do this? Where does that come from? What's the origin of that? What, why did, who, why, where, when?

And then someone else will write in with the answer. But it might take weeks. Here, it takes

mere minutes. And there aren't really any rules except dullness and repetition. If your question

is boring, it won't get on the board.

Let me explain how you can work out in advance whether or not it is boring. Very simply put,

if you don't think anyone else will be interested in the answer, you know, it's like the possibility you need to be clear.

Look, I'll give you an example, all right.

Paul's in Northall.

Paul, what have you just rung in to ask?

Well, last, my wife's got a bit of a bad back, so last night I did the dutiful husband bit

and rubbed in some analgesic cream into her back to numb the pain.

Yeah.

And I was just wondering, how come my hand didn't go numb? How come your hand

didn't go numb when you were using the analgesic thing to rub into your wife's back?

I put the cream on my hand. No, I know. I've understood. But, and have you checked, I mean,

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