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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

What is a Shanghai in darts?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5985 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's Mystery Hour. To join the game call: 0345 60 60 973, Thursdays at 12PM

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.3

Three minutes after 12 is the time. And there are our weekly adventures in the shallow end of life.

0:17.0

And given the depth of the waters that we've been exploring together for the last two

0:21.2

hours there is an air of the crunching gear change isn't there to mix my metaphors horribly but

0:26.7

do bear with I generally guarantee some some laughter in the course of this hour what we do

0:34.9

is invite you to ring in with a question. Any question you want.

0:40.3

And the only rules are rules of dullness and repetition. So if we think your question

0:44.8

is boring, please don't take offence, politely move along, free up your space in the queue for

0:50.0

the next customer. And if we can remember dealing with it relatively recently, we'll

0:53.8

probably send you packing as well. Although that second rule is very flimsy given given the age of

0:59.1

Keith and me these days and the appallingness of our short-term memories and then if you

1:03.5

hear someone else ask a question to which you know the answer your duty bound to ring in and

1:07.2

provide various prizes various treats in store.

1:12.8

There is the mystery hour round of applause,

1:14.6

one of the highest accolades that British radio can bestow.

1:17.9

And then there is what we call the Ray Leota.

1:21.0

Ray Leota, which is a special bespoke message

1:25.4

recorded by the Hollywood legend, Rayota paraphrasing one of his

1:30.6

most famous film phrases. If you build it, he will come from Field of Dreams, of course,

1:36.2

and he has recorded our own version, which if your qualifications for answering the question

1:41.8

that you answer. In fact, on any topic, on any day, on any

1:45.3

phone in on this program, if you, so for example, if we were doing a phone in about bouncy

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