Leading Britain's Conversation.

This is a podcast from LBC.

James O'Brien.

You are listening to Mystery Out with me, James O'Brien, live on LBC.

Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction

that's not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

If you're wondering what it is,

if you've joined the family quite recently,

and you haven't heard it before, then you're in for a bit of a surprise, actually. It's mostly

entertaining, funny and informative. It has no or very, very little to do with what's currently

in the news, and it offers you an opportunity to show off the fruits of your learning, something

that seems to be increasingly unfashionable in these days of Google and Twitter.

You can get answers to almost every question pretty much immediately,

which I feel, and I know this makes me sound like a pompous old goat,

I feel it somehow lessens the human experience.

The pleasure, particularly as a parent, of sharing knowledge with your child

that you've accrued, you know not how, over the course of your time upon this earth, and to see in

their little eyes the admiration and the love ignite. Those were the days. My eldest now has

just reached the eye-rolling stage at any point I make to inform or enlighten her.

Youngest is still hanging in there.

Youngest still thinks I know everything.

But the oldest, that ship has sailed.

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