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

Three minutes after 12 is the time, and for the first time in living memory, I think you've forgotten

that it was 12 o'clock on a Thursday and that mystery hour was about to unfold.

So you've got a much better chance of getting through now if you're quick than you have at any other

point in the last, it's probably a decade, is it? Or something like that. If you don't know what

mystery hour is, allow me to take a moment to remind you. It's your weekly opportunity to achieve

the sort of satisfaction. Not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

You have a question that needs an answer, a mystery that needs a solution,

a riddle that needs unraveling or indeed an enigma that craves satisfaction.

And somebody else listening to the program will know the answer to your question.

It can be silly, it can be serious, it can be scientific, it can be sporting.

We try to avoid motoring questions, but that's a very personal and particular prejudice on my part

that is diminishing slightly as the years pass, but the first thing you've got to do is get in touch.

We also live in an era now where a prize is available.

Not only is a prize available, the prize is an actual mystery hour board game based entirely

on this radio feature.

That's something I never thought would happen in a million years.

And I know, because I've been signing them.

Book events that quite a lot of people are going to have one under their tree this Christmas.

But if you want to get your own, you can do so at mystery hour.com.

Or you can just make my favourite contribution of the day to day.

You can be my favourite questioner or answerer on today's mystery hour,

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