Three minutes after 12 and the way it works is this.

You have a question nestling somewhere in the darker reaches of your memory banks.

A question to which you have thus far failed to find a satisfactory answer.

I am here to give you satisfaction, or at least the massed ranks of half a million Londoners are.

Because what you do is you dial the usual number, you ask the question, and you wait for

a fellow mystery hour of Ficciano to ring in with the answer. It may sound a little dry,

it may even sound a little dull, but it is anything but, as you will know, if you've

ever heard it before. So I'll give you the phone number. I'll only mention it when there are

phone lines free. So, how can I put this nice thing? There aren't any free at the moment. So as soon

as you hear me mention it, we'll be filtering a little bit because we won't let you on if the professionals

answering the phones think your question is very dull, and we won't let you on if any of

us can remember dealing with the question you want to ask in relatively recently. There's a

wonderful archive actually at lbc.co.uk, one of the best things on the website, and it's a very good website,

is the mystery hour archive where you can sort of see the anatomy of previously asked questions.

And I haven't really got a great deal else to say. 0845-6060973 is the number, which,

again I've mentioned, you'll only hear me say it when there is a phone line free.

If you're listening on the podcast, which an increasing number of people do do, that's fine.

Don't forget we're here for 14 other hours a week, but if you're listening on the podcast, remember the price you pay for not being here live is not being able to ring in with the answers.

Every week I get a couple of tweets to at Mr James OB telling me that,

oh, I just read, oh, yeah, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, James.

You're probably in bed, aren't you?

You're not going to want the answer to that question now.

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