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Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Oh, what a welcome relief this is.

How many hours have we done on topics that weren't Iran so far this week?

Two.

So we've only done three hours in the last two weeks.

So five times three,

15, and then it's Thursday. So that would be 12. 27. So we've done 24 hours, I think.

23. Anyway, anyway, aren't we, that's like a whole day, as Keith points out. Anyway, what

blessed relief it is to have a little bit of fun. And I can say that with a degree of confidence, because we always have fun, don't we? Don't we? Well, I do. Between 12 and 1 on Thursdays, Mystery Hour, your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial. If you don't know what it is, then you are in for a treat. And if you do know what it is, then obviously you're also in for a treat, but you don't need me to point that out because you already know what's going to happen. If you've got a question that needs an answer, 034-60-60973, and, well, hang on. Crescendo. Because Henry was in the studio, that, it's a, you're a very weird creature. I've ever told you that?

You're a very strange creature because if there's no phone in in the final bit of the hour that precedes Mystery Hour,

the switchboard is generally quite a lot quieter than it is when there is a phone in. Obviously,

part of this will depend on whether

or not I remember to remind you that Mystery Hour is around the corner, and on this occasion,

I think I forgot. But quite a lot of people are there on Thursdays at 12 noon, with their finger

poised above the redar button, waiting to jump on to the juggernaut that is Mystery Hour. But

you are a bit, you do, you are a creature of habit you are, you know.

When I don't have phone-in in the final bit of the previous hour, it somehow tells you that there's no phone-in element when there is.

So anyway, this is a phone in. It's

mystery out. And you have a better chance of getting through now than you did last week.

0345-6060973. Oh, do you want to know something really interesting? So I had Jeremy King on the podcast

this week. I don't know if he's going to be the one that we release on Friday, tomorrow even, because we've got quite a few in the file at the moment, in the archive.

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