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

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 12, I'd like to make that promise every day, every hour.

Isn't that a song?

Every day, every day, every hour?

No, anyway, I digress.

This is Mystery Hour, where I can make the guarantee that by 1 o'clock today,

if you listen to what follows, you'll know more than you do now. Why? Well, because for a start,

you can ring in and ask something you don't know and get an answer to it, but a slightly less involved level.

You can listen to countless other people do the same and benefit

from the responses we receive. It's like the radio equivalent of the newspaper columns, the

Q&A's, the notes and queries, where people write in and ask for help with a who, or why, or what,

a wherefore, a whence, a whither. Why do we do that? Where does that come from?

What's that for? I've seen something that I don't understand. We've done everything from astrophysics, and I'm not exaggerating. Check out the archive at lbc.co.com. You can move from the truly serious, which is often scientific, sometimes historical, right through

to the downright silly, of which my all-time favourite probably remains the bloke who rang in and

said, James, why don't islands float away? And I said, well, let me ask you to imagine a mountain.

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