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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why do we cover ourselves when we sleep?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's Mystery Hour. To join the game call: 0345 60 60 973, Thursdays at 12PM

Transcript

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0:00.0

If it wasn't for that moment, Alex and Sam wouldn't be lost in their favourite track at the club.

0:07.0

They wouldn't have shared that electric night front row at a music festival.

0:12.0

Or bonded over techno records talking all night long until the sun came up.

0:17.0

If it wasn't for that moment, when they were both scrolling on Tinder, and suddenly,

0:22.6

a relationship starts every three seconds on Tinder.

0:27.6

Download now, it starts with a swipe.

0:30.6

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

0:41.1

12 before we get stuck into mystery hour I'm just joining some dots here Boris Johnson was in

0:45.8

the United Arab Emirates yesterday wasn't he and met with the crown prince Sheikh

0:49.7

Mohammed bin Zayed and DP World which is majority owned by the Dubai Zovrin wealth fund own P&O

0:58.0

and it is now been reported by ITV that the company P&O is making all sailing staff redundant

1:05.0

with immediate effect before replacing them the RMT union has warned with foreign workers

1:10.0

so that trip of Boris Johnson's to

1:12.5

Saudi Arabia in the UAE, I know it doesn't matter because it's Boris Johnson that we're talking

1:17.9

about, but for any other politician at any other point in British history, that would be filed

1:21.6

under enormous disaster, I think, as things stand, unless, of course, there is some movement on

1:26.2

the oil price question.

1:29.0

But flying back to Britain to discover that Dubai has essentially pulled a rug from under a massive employer,

1:35.5

probably not what he had in mind when he flew out.

1:38.7

Should we just start with mystery out and not do any introductions or descriptions?

1:42.8

And you don't know how it works, you can work it out yourself. I'll just check with keith have you got the sound effects ready yeah you're sure

1:48.0

there's some complaints last week i know you were on your holidays but there's some complaints

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