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Four minutes after 12 is the time and mystery hour is upon us.

Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction,

not ordinarily available on the radio anywhere else in the world.

It is your chance to get an answer to the who, the why, the what, the when, the wherefore, the whither, possibly even the whence that has had you puzzled for the longest time or just for the last ten minutes or so. It is the radio equivalent of those newspaper columns, the notes and queries, the features where readers write in with a question,

with a mystery, why do we do that? What's the origin of that? When this happens, why does that happen? Why are there only X number of X's? You know the kind of thing. The thing that you know must have an answer, but you don't know what the answer is. Well, if you've got a question like that, we'll get you the answer by 1 o'clock.

All you have to do is ring 0345-6060977. If you've got a question like that, we'll get you the answer by 1 o'clock.

All you have to do is ring 034-6060973 and tell me what the mystery is.

What is the question to which you desperately desire an answer?

There aren't really any rules except repetition and dullness.

Getting very bad at the repetition as I get older.

Last week we had a question that you said we dealt with sort of a couple of weeks previously.

But if I can remember dealing with a question relatively recently,

then, or if Victoria and Caroline, who are answering the phones today, can,

then we will politely and invite you to move along, swiftly, ideally.

And dullness similarly is in the ear of the beholder. So if your question

is one that you think is absolutely fascinating, but on reflection you realize that nobody else

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