This is LVC from Global, leading Britain's conversation.

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 12, I mean that, that is proper homework.

I want to return to this subject tomorrow.

Two men accused of almost identical crimes and both court confessing to them on tape.

One of them's in rehab, with his career in tatters,

one of them still in the White House and coming here on a state visit. Why aren't they both in jail?

That's my starter for ten. Possibly even my starter at ten tomorrow. But that's another day. Today we turn our attention to Mystery Hour. Our weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of status. My God, the phones are full already. She's getting very tiring this, honestly. I almost look back fondly on the days when I glanced down at the switchboard

and wonder how the hell I was going to get to the next junction,

uninterrupted. I've got one phone line

free. Also, I've got a new producer, Beth.

Meet Beth, hello, Beth. Welcome.

And she is now charged, of course,

with knowing what we've done before, despite the fact that she hasn't worked on the program for the best part of two years. It does mean that you have to be on your toes. Don't ring in if you are asking a question that

someone else asked before on a day that you weren't listening. Have we got that clear?

So before you started listening to the program, and then you can work out how it works,

and I won't bore you with the rubric and the fine detail.

A couple of rules, don't be boring.

That generally holds true for all 15 hours of our time together.

Plenty of opportunities for boring people to be heard on the radio, just not on this show.

And, well, press company, accepted.

And repetition, but that's kind of our lookout.

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