Hello, four minutes after ten is the time. Very good morning indeed to you. Um, mystery out today,

do you know what? There's a little bit of exciting pre-Christmas magic for you. I think this will be

the last ever mystery hour. Wait for it. Before the mystery hour board game is actually in the shops.

More on that in the coming days. I would be very surprised if it isn't time to blow the whistle by next week's episode but that comes up at

12 o'clock of course i am on a much much much much more serious note drawn like most of my

colleagues to this tale of students being spiked by syringe on the dance floor. I'm not currently crystal

clear on the best way into that conversation, but, you know, you've learnt by now, you can usually

trust me to come up with an interesting way of inviting your contributions. Looking at spiking

in general, I've often wondered why more men are not dobbing in their mates, because it strikes

me as the sort of man who does that sort of thing is probably the sort of man who boasts about it,

which means that there will be a lot of men who are not the sort of men to do the actual

spiking, but hang out with the sort of men who are who are staying silent that

might be one interesting area of inquiry because you're unlikely to phone me if you're the sort

of pervert that indulges in this sort of behavior you may however find the courage to phone me

if you are familiar with somebody who indulges in this sort of criminality.

But we begin, and can I confide in you? I think I need to this morning, if that's all right.

I kind of don't want to talk about COVID. I think partly because you get a bit hoarse

sometimes when you're the boy in the crowd shouting about how naked the emperor is

and it feels as if some mornings you're surrounded by people insisting he's still wearing

wonderful robes and ermine trimmed finery you sort of watch that press conference yesterday

or pick up the bones of the press conference yesterday and you sort of think this is a bit nuts now but

if I go on the radio tomorrow morning and talk about how nuts it is then do I not end up being the

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