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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why do pencils have a B in their name? - 19 Mar 15

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2015

⏱️ 43 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

This is LBC, leading Britain's conversation.

0:06.7

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:09.6

Call 0345-60-973.

0:14.8

Tweet at LBC.

0:17.2

Text 84850.

0:19.7

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien

0:22.3

On LBC

0:23.9

Four minutes after 12 is the time

0:27.6

You are listening to James O'Brien on LBC

0:29.9

If you're listening in London

0:31.3

Could you do me one tiny favour

0:33.7

And tell me where, or if it's possible to get hold of eclipse glasses for tomorrow.

0:38.9

Send me a text to 84850 and ideally if there's some sort of public supply, I can tell you

0:44.1

where it is because I'd love my kids to see the solar eclipse that's due to unfold tomorrow.

0:49.0

Indeed, there might be some questions about the solar eclipse in the next hour because

0:51.8

mystery hour is upon us.

0:54.1

My favourite time of the week.

0:55.6

Most weeks, not all weeks, sometimes. In fact, the first hour today, if you missed it, the conversation about heckling on College Green yesterday and the interference with budget coverage was brilliant. I mean, really brilliant, probably because I didn't say much.

1:06.5

So check that out, but now, fill your boots with knowledge.

1:10.7

Mystery Hour is the radio equivalent of those popular newspaper conversations. So check that out, but now fill your boots with knowledge.

1:20.4

Mystery Hour is the radio equivalent of those popular newspaper columns, where you have one reader writing in with a question and another reader writing in with the answer.

1:24.6

It can take months or even years sometimes to achieve satisfaction.

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