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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Ok let's stop on the duvet question - 7 Jan 16

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Will humans get taller and what use is a spoon in a bottle of your prosecco?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.9

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0:06.7

with the one in ten chance to win an epic £10 coupon.

0:10.5

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0:12.0

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0:16.0

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0:20.1

On LBC.

0:22.6

Four minutes after 12.

0:24.0

Can you remember when the first mystery hour was?

0:25.7

It's lost in the mists of time now.

0:28.4

I began by accident this.

0:30.3

It was someone rang in and asked the question, and then lots of other people rang in with different answers.

0:34.4

And then a week later, I thought, well, let's do it again. And then suddenly it sort of

0:37.7

snowballed. And now we've been doing it for years, but no one could actually quite remember how

0:40.8

it started. I wonder whether you can. The very, very first one, I only ask, because I wonder

0:44.6

whether or not it's time to mark an anniversary or something like that. What are you talking about, James?

0:48.8

I shall tell you, if you're new to this programme, we are talking about your weekly opportunity to get an answer to the sort of

0:54.1

questions that have had you vexed, fuddled and possibly even mildly discombobulated for the longest

0:59.3

time. What, why, where, when, who, whither, whence, possibly even wherefore, you fill in the

1:05.7

rest of the sentence, and I'll get you an answer. That's how it works. You're familiar, perhaps,

1:10.5

with the newspaper columns,

1:12.3

the notes and queries where a reader will write in and say,

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