This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation, Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 12 is the time, one of those very, very rare occasions where I find my attention drawn towards the political sphere even as we prepare for the excitement of mystery.

But given that that vote isn't until five o'clock today, we will continue with the scheduled program, as they say.

As the grown-ups say.

This is, of course, your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction,

not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

You will ring in, or you will hear other

people ringing with a variety of questions covering an incredible array of areas and

topics and then you will hear other people ring in it may possibly be you yourself

ringing in to answer them. It really is pretty much as simple as that. There are

certain criteria for inclusion, largely dullness and

repetition, although repetition is a movable feast, given how long we've been doing this and how

poor my memory is. Repetition, I was about to try and do a joke about repeating dullness

there, but I blew it. Anyway, the number you need is 034-60-60973 is the number that you need.

There is a prize for my favourite contribution.

The prize is a pristine copy of the Mystery Hour board game available now in John Lewis,

as well as online via mysteryhour.com.com.

I still have a little frisson of disbelief when I say that out loud.

A mystery hour...

I mean, no one listened to this program when we started doing mystery hour,

let alone enough people to merit the idea of actually having a highly successful board game

launched off the back of it. But we really do. You can buy it in shops.

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