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

Three minutes after at 12, and no, there is no conspiracy to put the call on just before midday

that it flirts with the parameters of being hinged, but just a coincidence that it's happened

on the last couple of days. Time now for mystery, three minutes after 12 is the time, and I've

solved one mystery for you. John Mundy, the legend who does our voiceovers here on this program,

was actually listening the other day when someone rang in and asked, I can't remember why I let them, given that it can't possibly be a been on topic, why it is mystery hour with James O'Brien rather than James O'Brien's mystery hour. And John had recorded and sent in an adjusted version before anyone had even got in touch with him. But as you may have noticed, we haven't used it. Because there's a reason why it is Mystery Hour with James O'Brien, as opposed to James O'Brien's Mystery Hour that I will share

with you a little later in the program. But before that, you need to ring in with your questions.

And of course, if you hear someone else ask a question, ring in with your answers.

There's nothing else to add except, perhaps.

We try to avoid dullness, although that's very much in the ear of the beholder.

We try to avoid repetition, although that's an increasingly forlorn task,

as the personnel on the programme change with every passing season

and my ability to remember what happened yesterday

never mind last week or indeed five years ago is as it's never been great and we used to have a

rule about not liking motoring questions but oddly I'm even sort of nearly said growing out of that

but that would involve me admitting that my previous antipathy towards matters motoring may have been somewhat childish or immature, and I'm not sure I'm ready to do that just yet. If you hear someone ask a question and you can answer it, ring in, and I'll ask you, if you're new to this, what your qualifications are, and you don't have to say, I've got a PhD and applied mathematics. You could just say, I saw it on the telly last night. I just want to know how you know the thing that you've just told us. All right? I'd also ask you to be polite to Ava and Sivani, who are asking the phones today, because for reasons that perhaps will elude me for the rest of my life, tempers get more frayed, I think because it's so hard to get through.

Tempers get more frayed during this hour than they do, even during our conversations about

politics and prime, even, well, maybe, it's close, but just be nice, will you?

I mean, have a crack at me if we're arguing about politics or something like that,

but don't have a crack at my colleagues when they're trying to get through as many phone calls as they humanly can in as little time as possible. All right? Six minutes after 12 is the time. Noel is in Bracknell. Question or answer, Noel? Hey, a question, James. Carry on. Okay, I'd like to know if we can find out, where was the first known use of wallpaper?

You're trolling me.

It's ridiculous.

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