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I don't know why. It was very gratifying.

Also at the comedy charts on the iTunes podcast.

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And stay tuned to find out because this is the hour where we achieve mutual satisfaction.

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But I can't do any of that without you.

And you need to pick up your phone and dial 0345-60-9773. Now, if you've got a question that needs an answer.

It's not quite that simple.

You will be given fairly short shrift, I'm afraid, because the switchboard goes bonkers.

I mean, do you know what? The switchboard during mystery out is even busier than it is when we have a conversation about Israel and Palestine. And that is really saying something. It goes even busier in this hour than it does during those heated debates. So, why would you ring in? Well, if you've got a who or why or where, a what, a when, a wherefore, a whither or whence, whatever the interrogative pronoun may be, you've got a mystery that needs solving, and you know there must be an answer to it, but you don't know what that answer is. It could be something the children have asked you. It could be something that's popped up while you've been reading, of course, to knit together the last topic of discussion. or it could just be something completely out of the blue that's just popped into your consciousness and won't go away.

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