Running the marathon with a fridge
James O'Brien's Mystery Hour
Global
4.5 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's Mystery Hour. To join the game, call 0345 60 60 973, Thursdays at 12pm.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, race for childhood. |
| 0:03.0 | Join RBC Race for the Kids and help build the new Children's Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
| 0:09.3 | The family festival and really fun fun run is back in Hyde Park on Saturday the 11th of October. |
| 0:15.5 | Walking, running or scooting. |
| 0:17.6 | Take on 2K or 5K your way and enjoy a day of music, games and more. |
| 0:23.2 | And support Great Ormond Street Hospital charity. Kids go free. |
| 0:27.2 | Join the fun at race.gosh.org. |
| 0:31.6 | This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation, Mystery Hour with James O'Brien. |
| 0:40.1 | Seven minutes after 12 hours of time, |
| 0:41.6 | a slightly curtailed mystery hour |
| 0:42.9 | because we detained Simon Marks for a little longer than scheduled. |
| 0:46.5 | And fake news. |
| 0:47.5 | Fake news alert, wasn't Gatsby, |
| 0:50.3 | where they talked about bankruptcy happening first, |
| 0:52.5 | slowly, then quickly. |
| 0:53.9 | The sun also rises by |
| 0:55.5 | honest emingway but gradually then quickly how did you go bankrupt in two ways gradually then suddenly |
| 1:01.3 | and that is perhaps how the march towards some deeply unpleasant processes will unfold in the |
| 1:07.9 | united states but enough of, enough of that seriousness and |
| 1:11.6 | gravity. It's time for some fun. It's time for some levity. It's time for some light relief. |
| 1:16.1 | It's Thursday. It's close to 12 o'clock and it is therefore time for mystery. Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial. And I have phone lines |
| 1:29.8 | free, a situation that will not be sustained for very long, but which is definitely true now. |
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