Three minutes after 12 is the time. You're listening to James O'Brien on LVC, where

mystery hour is upon us your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not

ordinarily available, anywhere else on your radio dial, or possibly anywhere else in the

world. I would very unrealistic and optimistically suggest. It's the radio equivalent of the

newspaper and magazine features that you may be familiar with, The ones that allow you to ask a question and get an answer to it.

The who, why, where, when, what, wherefore, when, even the odd wither.

Why do we do this? Where does that come from? What's the origin of that?

When that happens? Why does that happen?

Literally, almost anything goes.

The only rules we have involve repetition and dullness.

Repetition, that's our responsibility.

Dolness is yours.

If it's a question to which it's highly unlikely

that a significant number of people listening to the programme

will also be interested in the answer to,

then do us all a favour and don't ask it.

I know that sounds ungrateful.

I know that sounds unfair.

But Caroline and Megan, in the course of this hour, will answer more calls than most radio phoning programs do in the course of a week.

In the course of this single hour, they will be well, well over, well into the thousands, of calls.

And obviously, they won't all get answered.

And don't be put off by that statistic because astonishingly some people manage to get through on a regular basis,

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