leading britain's conversation this is a podcast from lbc james o'brien we need to undertake one of the more

crunching gear changes of our time together and completely change the tone and the mood of the

program an awful lot of love coming in for all of the callers in the last hour and I just add mine to it actually I really would sometimes

that's all you can say now however we turn our attention to lighter matters to the weekly

invitation from me to you sound like the chuckle brothers from me to you to secure the kind of

satisfaction you can't ordinarily discover anywhere else on your radio.

It is Mystery Hour. If you know what that means and you have a question, then by all means hit the numbers now.

If you don't know what that means and you would like me to explain, then bear with because I will.

It is the radio equivalent of those newspaper and magazine features where a reader writes in with a question, like a proper question, not completely nuts. It can be something like, why do we do this, or what's the

origin of that, or where does that come from, a who, a why, or where, or what, a when, a when, a whence,

even the occasional wherefore. And someone else will ring in in the course of the hour with

the answer. Now, don't start rolling your eyes. It's a lot more fun than it sounds. It's one of

those examples of the journey being more important often than the destination. But the destination

contains illumination, so the destination is pretty valuable too. Why we started doing this is

lost in the midst of time. I think it had something to do with elections, because elections are always on Thursdays, and we can't talk about elections on the Thursdays when there are actual elections.

So there's always a little bit of a mad rush for things to talk about that are absolutely copper-bottomed and insulated against any accidental mention of the election that's unfolding on the day that you're not allowed to talk about the election.

So we came up with quite a few schemes and wizard weezes.

The mystery has seems to have survived.

The reason why it survived, I think, is because we all, um...

We all recognise the changing nature of knowledge.

I don't want to sound too pompous, but the, a bit late now,

but the way that when I look at my children doing their homework and when I think of my parents

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