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.

It's three minutes after 12. You're listening to LBC 97.3. And Mystery Hour is upon us.

The, well, the most reliably popular part of the week. Some weeks we do even more popular things. Some weeks we don't. But every week, this will be there or thereabouts. You can tell that by where we sit now in the iTunes charts. Made the top ten comedy podcast in the whole of the country last week. Mystery Hour. I know what you're thinking. Where's the comedy? So am I,

actually. But I mentioned that simply by way of establishing the popularity and the need to give

you a quick reminder of the rules. The way it works is this. It really couldn't be simpler.

It's the radio equivalent of those newspaper and magazine features where a reader will write in

with a question,

something that's got them befuddled, discombobulated, bedazzled,

and another reader will write in sometimes weeks later with the answer.

We tend to do cash on delivery here.

You ring in with the question now, 0845-60673,

and someone else will ring in with the answer on the same number. It gets incredibly busy,

but I only say the number when I've got a phone line free. And I am not exaggerating when I say to you that things went so completely crazy on the switchboard in the last hour when we were

talking about demonic possession, jin's, genies, spirits, call them what you will, that it meant

things were still very

busy at the time when most people start trying to get through to Mystery Hour. So you've got,

I'd say, about a 90-second window from the moment I say this to the moment at which those

little windows on the switchboard closed. So don't hang around, grab it. 0845-60-60-9773 is the number that you need.

Any rules? Not really.

We don't like repetition.

So if you do get through to the studio and you ask a question and they sound unenthusiastic, they'll tell you, we've done it before.

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