Leading Britain's Conversation.

This is a podcast from LBC.

James O'Brien.

Completely forgot to peak your excitement before the news.

I was so engrossed by what Bob was telling us about this astonishing investigation into the Grenfell Tower.

I can now prick your excitement to my heart's content.

It's your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction

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

So if you have a question that needs an answer

and you already know how this absurdly popular feature works,

then hit the numbers now.

You will get through.

0-345-60-90973 is the number to call.

If you are not familiar with it, then I shall take a moment now to talk you through precisely how it works

and why people have invested Mystery Hour with so much love, affection and attention over the course of the last few years.

Think of it, if you will, as the radio equivalent of those newspaper and magazine features,

where a reader writes in with a question in the desperate hope that another reader will know the answer.

And I don't mean like boring stuff, although it is sometimes the case that a very boring question

slips through the net. Often, often with a sort of comedic subtext, we shall find out today.

But it is perfectly possible that you've got quite a complicated scientific question that needs an answer,

and it's perfectly possible that someone with quite a complicated scientific body of knowledge will be listening.

It could be silly, it could be serious, it could be any of those things.

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