The promise that I issue to you is that by one o'clock today, you will know more and you do now.

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 12, welcome.

Welcome to your weekly opportunity to get answers to pretty much any question you want.

If you're new to this part of the program, allow me a moment to explain.

If you're not, I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing once again the ingredients for the most fun we have together in the average week.

It's pretty straightforward.

It's the radio equivalent of all of those newspaper features with which you're already no doubt familiar, the cues and

A's, the notes and queries, the who's, why, what, where, whens. But of course, this being radio,

oddly, given all the acceleration of technology we've seen since the invention of the internet,

everyone forgets radio was there first. Everyone talks about, oh, we've got to be interactive.

It doesn't get more interactive than this. It really doesn't. It's impossible to be more interactive. It's short of

coming around your house for a chat. It's impossible to be more interactive than a radio

phone in. And that's why we get satisfaction in a way during mystery hour that you can't get

in any other contexts. There's some free phone lines, quite an odd end to the last hour in talking about fire station closures and the

like. So we didn't queue up mystery hour as early as we usually do, which means you've got a chance

of getting through now. You won't have a chance of getting through in about 10 minutes time.

And after that, you'll just have to trust me that when I give you the number, it means we've got a phone line free. But by far the busiest hour of the week on the whole station

is now underway, with a few vacancies on the switchboard. So if you want to grab one, don't we put

off by past failure? Try and grab it now on 0845-6060973. So what happens is you or indeed someone else will ring in with a question. A question to which you are sure there must be an answer but which you have thus far been completely unable to find. It could be a who, a why, a what, a where, a when, a whither, occasionally even a whence. If you hear somebody ask a question to which you know the answer, 08456060973 is the number that you need.

The only grounds on which your question will be excluded are repetition, i.e. if Jones the engineer and I,

who are the long serving members of staff on this program, could remember a question being asked and satisfactorily answered, then we won't do it again.

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