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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Questions today included: Why do you find silver spoons when digging in foundations? If the fridge is full does it use up more energy and what does the expression 'Scot Free' mean?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The promise that I issue to you is that by 1 o'clock today, you will know more and you do now.

0:07.0

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:14.0

Three minutes after 12, this is LBC 97.3, and this is, among the best hours of the week.

0:22.4

Mystery hour, your weekly opportunity to get answers to the questions that have had you

0:25.6

puzzled for the longest, or I suppose it should be said the shortest time.

0:29.1

All you've got to do is ring in with it.

0:30.7

A why, a who, a where, a when, a where, a whither, a wherefore, a whence.

0:34.7

Any other interrogatory pronouns you can think?

0:36.8

Oh, I think that's pretty much the whole

0:38.9

gamut. Why four? Where four? 0845. 6060973 is the number to call if you've got a question.

0:46.7

If you hear someone else, of course, asking a question to which you know the answer, then you

0:51.3

are duty bound to ring in with it. You have, that's the entire point.

0:55.7

It's a quest for mutual satisfaction, not like that, matron, intellectual satisfaction,

1:00.8

elucidation, education, enlightenment. And if you've got a question, or indeed if, because

1:05.5

it is the school holidays, one of your little treasures has got a question, then we want to

1:09.6

hear it and we will provide an answer to it. There are only really two criteria upon which you could be excluded.

1:15.8

Dullness and repetition. Dullness, I'm afraid, is the management's decision is final.

1:19.9

If the person that takes your question on the phone decides that it's dull, there is no

1:26.8

appeal process, you will not get onto the program, and you are not allowed to complain decides that it's dull, there is no appeal process, you will not get on to the

1:28.8

programme and you are not allowed to complain. If it's a question to do with motoring, the chances

1:33.6

are it will be a judge dull, although the odd one does sneak through the net. Repetition

1:37.5

is fairly self-explanatory. If you ask a question or seek to ask a question to which we have

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