Mystery Hour - Why don't hungry foxes eat pigeons? - 6 Sep 12
James O'Brien's Mystery Hour
Global
4.5 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2012
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:04.3 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. |
| 0:14.4 | So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. |
| 0:22.4 | Yours, Toby. |
| 0:24.1 | Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday. |
| 0:29.0 | Atul protected. |
| 0:30.1 | Brian. |
| 0:32.2 | And it does exactly what it says on the tin, really. |
| 0:35.1 | You probably have a who or a why or a when or a wherefore, a wither, a wence, or a what. |
| 0:40.6 | Sounds nice, that's the sort of beginning of a Dr. Seuss poem. And somebody else listening to this programme, |
| 0:46.6 | someone among the myriad hundreds of thousands will have an answer to your question. |
| 0:51.4 | There's a couple of rules, very simply put. Don't be dull. Never be dull. Never be boring. |
| 0:57.9 | And no repetition. Repetition you can't really be blamed for. That's in the eye of the beholder. So if Lucy and Jogruti, who are answering the phones today, tell you that your question has been dealt with before, you are politely requested to retire |
| 1:11.8 | gracefully from the field of play. Go to LBC.com.uk to look at the mystery archive because the answer |
| 1:17.6 | and indeed of course the question will be there. It's also quite a nice read at the best of times, |
| 1:22.0 | I must say the mystery hour archive. It's a sort of collation, a collection, a compilation of many, many moonsworth of mystery hours. |
| 1:31.4 | And dullness, of course, usually involves questions about cars or motoring. |
| 1:38.1 | You know, yes, I took the A-14 and any of that sort of question that's likely to be asked by someone called Colin. |
| 1:43.4 | Not exclusively, of course, but it's sort of like the Colin test. |
| 1:47.6 | 0845-60-60973 is a number to call if you've got a question |
| 1:51.2 | or if you can answer a question which you've heard somebody else ask. |
| 1:56.5 | Should we just crack on? Ron's in Hertfordshire. |
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