Mystery hour - Why do pigeons have manky feet?
James O'Brien's Mystery Hour
Global
4.5 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2012
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it wasn't for that moment, Alex and Sam wouldn't be lost in their favourite track at the club. |
| 0:07.0 | They wouldn't have shared that electric night front row at a music festival. |
| 0:12.0 | Or bonded over techno records talking all night long until the sun came up. |
| 0:17.0 | If it wasn't for that moment, when they were both scrolling on Tinder, and suddenly... |
| 0:22.6 | A relationship starts every three seconds on Tinder. |
| 0:27.8 | Download now. It starts with a swipe. |
| 0:31.7 | The promise that I issue to you is that by 1 o'clock today you will know more than you do now. |
| 0:38.2 | LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien. |
| 0:45.5 | And so it begins. Your weekly opportunity to get satisfaction. |
| 0:49.4 | Ooh, matron. Indeed, to get a solution to whatever problem has plagued you. Calm down, Kay. Just |
| 0:55.5 | texted 84850 to say, what has happened to Mystery Hour? Well, it's here now. It'd be Mystery |
| 1:00.4 | 52 minutes. That's the only difference. If you've got a question that needs answering, it can be |
| 1:04.1 | anything at all. If you've never heard this before, you'll get an idea by the questions you |
| 1:08.6 | hear asked in a moment of just how broad the parameters for inclusion are. |
| 1:12.2 | It's the radio equivalent of those newspaper columns with which you probably are familiar, |
| 1:15.9 | the notes and queries, the Q&As that are popular everywhere from the Guardian through to the Daily Mail. |
| 1:22.5 | Why do we do this? What is that? Where does that come from? When, why, what, where, whither, when... Who, perhaps? 0845, 6060, 60973. First time, actually, in the whole of 2012, that I can say it eight minutes after 12 on a Thursday, that if you hit the numbers now, you will get through. |
| 1:40.2 | Obviously, the Leveson inquiry, slightly rejigging things on the programme and indeed the station to wit. |
| 1:46.6 | Please don't miss tonight's Leverson special with a dizzying array of guests and pundits and expert comments, including Simon Kellner, former editor of the independent newspaper. |
| 1:57.4 | All that after 7 o'clock this evening with Ian Dale back in the chair, |
| 2:01.7 | I'm delighted to tell you. |
| 2:03.6 | But, mystery hour, if you know the answer to a question you hear someone else ask, you have to ring in with it. |
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