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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Where does wind come from?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 48 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.

0:10.0

Four minutes after 12 of the time. I told you that woke watch was a cracker. Someone's just found an article from the mail online in 2009 where David Starkey, widely regarded as a champion of the anti-woke movement,

0:21.6

found evidence that Henry VIII actually had a stair lift at Whitehall Palace, or a stair throne, and wheelchairs.

0:28.6

So he was arguing with another historian about the fact that Henry the 8th was actually disabled.

0:32.6

So I told you that was a cracker. But we digress. Time now for mystery. Time for more important matters.

0:36.6

Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not ordinarily available anywhere else

0:41.5

on your radio dial. If you have a mystery that needs solving, this could be the

0:46.9

pot of gold at the end of your personal rainbow. A who, a why, a what, a where, a when, a whither,

0:52.1

or even a wherefore. Ring in with the question.

0:57.2

Somebody listening will hopefully know the answer, and they will then ring in with it.

0:58.2

The only rule is this.

0:59.6

You're not allowed to look stuff up.

1:04.3

Seriously, you can't Google it, you can't reach for your Encyclopedia Britannica,

1:07.8

and you can't just pull a book off your bookshend.

1:15.5

You have to know the answer already. So when I say what are your qualifications, you will reveal to me how you know the thing you know. It doesn't mean you've got a PhD in applied mathematics or anything like that. You might have just seen it on

1:19.6

the telly last night, but you have to prove that you, I mean, it's not rigorous. I'm not going to ban

1:24.3

you from the program or zone you out. Is it zone you out?

1:28.4

This is a lovely message.

1:29.3

Did you just zone that caller out with the volume knob?

1:31.9

I say that's no way to talk about Keith, honestly.

1:34.4

So I'm not going to do anything brutal.

1:37.0

But just don't do it.

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