The promise that I issue to you is that by 1 o'clock today you will know more than you do now.

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 12, and it is that time of week again.

That time of week singled out by both the Daily Telegraph

and now the Observer for particular praise on their radio review pages and indeed the

podcast review pages because we're now podcasting this as well.

So if you enjoy what happens in the next 55 minutes or so, then get yourself over to iTunes

and download untold hours of previous installments.

But what is it, James, you say?

I'll tell you.

It's your weekly opportunity to achieve satisfaction, to get an answer to the question

that has been puzzling you for the longest time.

The way it works is this.

You pick up your phone and you dial 0845-6060973 and you share with a captive audience, the who, the what the where the when the whither the wence that has you puzzled stymied stumped someone else listening will know the answer there's no i mean genuinely there's no rule about inclusion there's just a sort of general sense of preference. For example, we would

probably not let you on if you ask us a question about cars, because we find them a bit dull.

Rightly or wrongly, the management's decision is final. Similarly, with repetition,

if you ask a question with which we have dealt satisfactorily in relatively recent weeks or months, then we'll get that up fairly quickly as well.

0845-6060973 is the number to call if you have a question, and indeed, if you hear somebody

else ask a question to which you know the answer. If you're new to it,

think of the, think of the newspaper columns where readers send in a question and other readers

over the course of the subsequent weeks send in various answers, eventually arriving at the correct one.

Think of that and then add some serious belly laughs, because there's two promises I make to you now,

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