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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

What did they do before toothpaste?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered "why", then this is the hour for you. Sometimes simple, sometimes intelligent, but almost always entertaining, probably the best hour of radio you could ever download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It turns out you can please all of the people all of the time.

0:05.5

Garden games for the kids, a separate cottage for the grandparents, a private chef for that special occasion.

0:13.8

Simpson Travel, idyllic Mediterranean holidays that everyone will love.

0:19.7

We take care of the details so you can enjoy the moment.

0:23.8

Simpsontravel.com because your time is precious.

0:31.6

Leading Britain's Conversation.

0:34.0

This is a podcast from LBC.

0:36.6

James O'Brien.

0:37.6

Mystery Hour is your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction that's not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

0:43.4

Everybody listening to the program will have questions in their head that need answering.

0:48.2

Some of them urgent, some of them less so, all of them interesting, one hopes, some of them silly, many of them serious.

0:53.9

The point

0:54.3

is you ring in with your question, 0345-6060973, and somebody else listening will know the

1:00.5

answer. There aren't really any rules. We don't like dullness, but dullness obviously is in the

1:04.2

ear of the beholder, and we don't like repetition, but repetition is kind of my lookout rather than

1:08.9

yours, although you can check the LBC website for the Mystery Hour archive and find out whether the question that's bubbled up into your brain has been dealt with before.

1:18.1

Otherwise, the only other rule is that if you ring in with an answer, you're not allowed to look stuff up.

1:23.3

You have to know the answer from the fruits of your learning or the results of your life.

1:27.0

It doesn't mean you have to be the Professor of public understanding of science at the University of Brighton,

1:30.7

although Professor Hales Sosobowski, who is the professor of the public understanding of science at Brighton University,

1:35.8

is one of the most regular contributors to Mystery.

1:38.6

You can actually, when I ask you what your qualifications are for providing the answer you've just provided, you can say something that I saw it on telly last night, or even I heard it on Mysteryast six years ago, and I've got a

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