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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why do men lose their hair?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered "why", then this is the hour for you. Sometimes simple, sometimes intelligent, but almost always entertaining, probably the best hour of radio you could ever download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Leading Britain's Conversation.

0:04.0

This is a podcast from LBC, James O'Brien.

0:07.8

They are here, even though I forgot to remind them that Mystery Hour was upon us.

0:13.6

You better go involved.

0:14.5

We've got three phone lines free.

0:15.5

You know how this works.

0:16.1

The weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction that is ordinarily only available.

0:21.6

It's never available anywhere else on your radio dial.

0:24.6

I completely forgot it was Mystery Hour. Am I making that very obvious by my amateurish introduction?

0:28.6

I think I am, aren't I? I completely forgot. I was getting ready to carry on talking about the other stuff.

0:33.6

Mystery Hour, finally, upon us. Three minutes after 12 is the time. A little bit of light relief for those of you who may have overdosed upon an almost unleavened diet of Brexit.

0:43.8

If you've got a question bubbling away in the back of your mind, somebody else listening to this programme will probably be able to answer it.

0:50.3

0345-6060973 is the number that you need. If you hear somebody else ask a question to which

0:57.1

you know the answer, then you have to ring in and answer it, otherwise your radio will melt.

1:03.3

And made the last bit up. That's it really. Quick heads up. Don't be boring. That's really the only

1:09.8

rule. We used to have a rule about repetition,

1:12.1

but after so many years of doing this feature, frankly, I can't believe it's lasted this long.

1:15.8

And every week, every week it justifies its retention in the schedules.

1:20.8

But if you, in many ways, it's more popular than ever before. But if you ring in with a question

1:26.1

that's really, really obvious, you know, bearing in mind we've been doing this for years, the chances are it's been answered.

1:32.3

There's a rather jolly archive over at lbc.co.uk that collates questions that have been asked and answered, sometimes successfully, sometimes not so successfully.

1:42.5

Sometimes the wrong answers can be the funniest.

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