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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

The first time a baby's heart beats

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5985 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Also tides, banks and landing strips

Transcript

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0:00.0

Birmingham.

0:01.0

Being an actor, I find it easy to switch.

0:03.0

One minute, I am an impulsive detective.

0:06.0

Then...

0:07.0

A ferocious tiger.

0:09.0

Here comes advertising address.

0:11.0

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0:14.0

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0:18.0

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0:21.7

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0:24.2

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0:26.6

12-month minimum term. Prices may vary. See sky.com forward slash mobile.

0:29.9

Ooh, here it is. Weekly excitement, a weekly guarantee of joy and giggles.

0:36.9

And indeed knowledge. If you are new to this,

0:39.5

it is the radio equivalent of the slightly dry and dull newspaper columns where a reader writes

0:45.6

in with a question, why do we do that? Where does that come from? What's the origin of this? When

0:49.8

that happens? Why does that happen? Who? Why? What? Where? When? Wither? Wherefore?

0:53.9

Even the occasional whence. And then some weeks or days later,

0:57.1

another reader will write in with an attempted answer, and then they may ensue a slight argument

1:00.6

on the letters page before finally arriving at a definitive conclusion. This is, this is in many

1:05.4

ways the opposite of that. A, we do it all really, really quickly, and B, it's not remotely dry. But hang on, what's the opposite of dry in the concept of comedy?

1:14.7

It's not wet, is it? Well, I don't know. That could be a question. Except it isn't, because there isn't an answer to it.

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