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

12.04 is the time. Mystery Hour is upon us, and I think more than at any point that I can remember in a very, very long time, I really need it this week. I mean, God, I'm exhausted from plugging my book so

furiously. I'm only joking. I do find those conversations really, really difficult. And thank you.

Once again, for letting us have them, and like you, an awful lot of you are actually getting in touch

to say that the final contribution left him down was close to perfect. Couldn't agree more.

Five minutes after at 12 is a time. And now, mystery hour, a lot of fun.

If you're new to this, trust me, it's rather different from the other 14 hours of the week that we spend together.

Or 16, of course, if you're signing up for my paperback launch later this evening on Zoom.

But it is funny. It is diverting. It's informative. It's illuminating and it is even occasionally borderline educational. You have a question, a mystery, a conundrum bubbling away in the back

of your mind and someone else listening to the program will have the answer and that's it

really. Did I say down in by no moment, Mark? My apologies. So think, should we crack straight on and see what happens, rather than do the rubric

and the rules and the terms and conditions, the TNCs, could all end horribly?

Could I end up breaking all the rules?

All right, I will remind you brackets, really my colleagues, close brackets, that I don't

like questions about motoring much. Okay. That's,

that's not good. And if it's a question that only you are going to be interested in the answer to,

it's unlikely that it's going to wash, but not impossible. Because occasionally you might say

something and suddenly everyone else goes, oh, but it's a tough.

And the management's decision is final.

And for the avoidance of doubt, brackets, once again, talking to my colleagues while pretending to talk to the listeners, close brackets, I am the management.

All right?

Yeah.

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