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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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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!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm currently out of office.
0:04.3	An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.
0:14.4	So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby.
0:24.2	Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday. Atul protected.
0:30.3	Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.
0:33.4	Three minutes after 12 is the time. Mystery Hour is upon us. Your weekly opportunity to achieve the...
0:37.7	Actually, it's... I mean, usually it sticks out like a sore thumb in the schedule, but quite a lot of our Brexit conversations have had a flavour of mystery hour about them lately.
0:46.8	Nobody knows. I don't know. You don't know. He doesn't know. Anyone pretending to know is a liar.
0:51.9	Holy moly. Um, I will, will however remember to say good morning no got
0:55.8	that wrong let's start again good afternoon to cofi he drove me to work this morning and is a big
1:00.6	fan of mystery hour I promised I'd say hello so hello cofi right four fine lines currently empty
1:06.0	which is quite a good sign because it means some people have already rung in and been
1:08.9	politely invited to move along because their question was too boring or repetitive although sam and beth were i hope
1:14.5	far too polite to be explicit about that a diplomatic explanation that your question is too boring one
1:20.4	day i'm going to go into the room next door and listen to how they do it but it means that if you hit
1:24.9	the numbers now you've got a if you're very very quick you've got a middling chance of actually getting through to the studio that if you hit the numbers now you've got a, if you're very, very quick,
1:29.5	you've got a middling chance of actually getting through to the studio.
1:30.1	Gosh.
1:33.9	If you hear me say the number, it means there are phone lines free.
1:36.9	034-6-0-60973.
1:41.3	If you don't hear me say the number, it means at the moment it means there aren't phone lines free.
1:47.9	But as a general rule, if you don't hear me say the number means I'm happy talking to the same seven or eight people every day for the rest of my career um don't be boring don't be repetitive anything else if you don't know what this is
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