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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why are some insects 'dragons'?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's infamous Mystery Hour. To listen live or ask a question, tune in Thursdays at 12PM and call 0345 60 60 973

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation, mystery hour with James O'Brien.

0:11.0

Oh, that's nice, isn't it?

0:13.6

You know what, I jumped in the River Thames yesterday.

0:15.9

I just got a tweet telling me to, so I thought, no, I'm joking.

0:19.5

I went paddling. I bought a kayak. I mentioned

0:21.9

it earlier. I went paddling up near Windsor, near Rune Mead. It's beautiful up there, absolutely

0:26.3

gorgeous. And that's what I felt like just then when Mystery Hour started. It was like a

0:31.0

refreshing change. Oh, that's nice. We can stop examining the slow withering of British democracy.

0:38.6

We can stop worrying about the imminent demise of the Union.

0:42.5

We can stop focusing upon the madness just on the horizon

0:46.5

when we probably still won't be out of the coronavirus crisis

0:49.7

and the Brexit brouhaha kicks in.

0:52.9

But misjia provides us

0:55.2

with a little bit of light relief.

0:56.4

If you don't know how this works,

0:57.3

allow me to tell you.

1:00.5

People ring in the questions.

1:02.1

At the moment,

1:02.7

they tend to be under the age of 13,

1:04.1

which has been rather jolly,

1:05.0

and then other people ring in with answers.

1:08.4

That's it, actually.

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