This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation, Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

I was trying to remember, why didn't we do it last week? Was it because of the insurrection that Donald Trump incited?

That's not a question. Don't ring into, yes, it was. So we took a view last week not to do it, which means this is the first of 2021. Is it? The first mystery hour. Oh my God, you're witnessing history. Live on your radio.

This is the first mystery hour of 2021. And the first mystery hour, I think, since I signed the contract

to produce a mystery hour board game, which will be with you in a matter of moments. Well, not

literally moments, but ultimately,

I suppose. Many, many moments. But this year, soon, sooner rather than later, about which,

more later. If you don't know what this feature is like, you're in for, I hope, a pleasant

surprise. If you're tuning in for the wit and insights, the astonishingly high quality of calls, the fact-based journalism,

then this is completely different. It's none of those things. It's mostly fun. It's quite silly,

occasionally very serious and deeply informative.

Best viewed, I think, as a celebration of old-fashioned knowledge.

And by old-fashioned, I mean the sort of knowledge you used to need to have,

but as some of a struggle to acknowledge or accept,

you probably don't really need to have it in quite the same way

on anything like the same scale anymore.

In the way, I think the best way to explain it very simply,

is you now have in your pocket access to almost the sum total of accrued human knowledge.

By going online with your smartphone, you can find out almost anything you want.

It's so hard to explain this to youngsters, isn't it? You know, when I started

on the Daily Express, it didn't even have an internet access on the, in the newsroom or in the

library. That's not that long ago, you know, it's about 25 years ago. National newspaper, no internet.

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