leading britain's conversation this is a podcast from lbc james o'brien this is why mystery i was invented

you know the day's night today it just proved so popular or at least so enjoyable for me

that uh that it became a permanent fixture of thursdays but it was actually one of the

shore fireways that we had of ensuring

that there would be no political commentary or comment contained within at least this hour

of the program because it has nothing to do with the news. And on days when there are elections,

as there are today, in many parts of the country, you are as a broadcast organization, not permitted,

really, to say anything at all that could sway anything at all,

which is about the limit of what I'm prepared to say.

So there you go, a little bit of history for you.

I've got a fascinating fact. I shared it with some friends yesterday, and their response was agreeably excited.

One of them was Russell Kane, the comedian, and he's always excited.

But the other people there were very excited as well. I just thought I'd share it with you during Mystery Out. Do you know the word, did I tell you this yesterday? I've got a book at home that I'm

sort of dipping in and out of. It's the history of the River Thames. I've had it for years, and I just dip in and out of it every now and then.

The word cabal.

Did you know, you know the word cabal?

As in a sort of small secret coterie of conspirators, C-A-B-A-L.

Do you know where that comes from?

The aristocrats, who, there's five of them, who had a meeting,

I think under Charles II reign, or someone like that, it could have been James the first, but a slightly

sort of controversial monarch, they had the first letters of their name, spelled out C-A-B-A-L.

So it comes from the Jewish word cabala, it's K-A-B-A-L-A-H. But the original

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