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

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 12. This is LBC 97.3. It's Thursday. It's just gone 12 noon. It can mean only one thing. Do you know how many emails, texts and tweets I got this morning saying, I know Leveson's really important, but it's not going to interfere with mystery areas at James? To be honest with you, if Leveson had been reporting at half past 12 today instead of instead of half-past one, then yes, we would, obviously, have postponed or curtailed mystery hour. But it's happening on Julia's

watch. So, as you were, all is normal. This is, for many people, the most favourite part of their

listening week. It's probably the most reliably

enjoyable part of my presenting week.

It doesn't sound like much when I

describe it to you, but if you just trust me,

you will discover why

so many people get so excited about

this hour of the week.

And I'm not exaggerating. If you think I am,

follow me on Twitter and I'll retweet some of the more

ludicrous enthusiasm

that's expressed there

for this. It is the radio equivalent

of the newspaper columns, where

questions are posed by one reader

and answered by others.

But it's a little bit more than that. The way it works is this.

If you have a who, a why, a what, a wherefore,

a whence, a wither,

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