Three minutes after 12 is the time. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC where our weekly adventure into the unknown begins your opportunity every seven days to achieve the sort of satisfaction that's not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial. If you have a mystery and you know that it must have an answer but you are unable to identify just what that answer might be,

then help is at hand.

It's a sort of radio equivalent.

If you are new to this, and I know a lot of people are, so I do have to explain every week how it works.

It's the radio equivalent of the newspaper and magazine features where someone writes in with a question,

and then a couple of weeks later someone else writes in with the answer.

Why do we do that?

What's the origin of this?

Who did that?

Where does that come from?

Who, why?

What?

Where?

When's?

And even the occasional wherefore.

The number you need remains the same.

0-345-6060973. As ever on this program, I shall share the number with you whenever there are phone lines free, but also, I used to say, a couple of years ago, I'd say, but during this hour, things are really busy. But to be honest with you, it's nuts at the moment, this switchboard, every hour. And Mr. Hour doesn't even stand out anymore. You used to count how many calls we took during Mr. Hour and then boast about it in the office with all the other presenters, but it don't even bother anymore because the other two hours

of the show are almost as bonkers as this hour. But I mention that because it is very hard to get

through, and it means that Caroline and Rosie have to, with respect, sought quite a lot of chaff

from the wheat. And chaff would involve a question that is either repetitious, something that we've dealt with before, or dull. And management's decision is final on that. The best way of judging whether your

question is dull is asking yourself whether or not many people would be interested in the answer,

or would it just be you? If it's just you, probably not going to get on the board. If it's lots and

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