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Mystery Hour with James O'Brien on LBC.

Four minutes after 12 is the time.

And I feel most weeks it's nice, isn't it, to get to Mystery Hour?

It's a bit like doing lessons outside when the sun's out or something like that.

You know that the other 14 hours of the week are crucial and important,

and I do my best to make them as interesting as I can. But there is something about this hour. It's this Thursday lunchtime hour that we

spend together that feels a little bit demob, doesn't it? A little bit end of term. So why, if you're

new to it, would I describe it in such glowing terms? The answer is that you'll learn something

and you'll laugh in the course of the next hour. If you don't, I will give you a full reason of the price of entry.

You will learn something and you will laugh, possibly even out loud.

Whether or not what you learn is remotely useful, that I'm afraid I cannot guarantee.

It's this. It's the radio equivalent of the newspaper columns where someone writes in with a question, why do we do this? What's the origin of that? Where does that come from? What's that? I saw this. I didn't understand it. Who, why? What, where, when, when, whither, when's where for, and so on. And then a couple of days or weeks or months later, someone else writes in with the answer.

And that's it, actually.

Although you'll have to trust me when I say it's the travelling that constitutes the fun of the fair more than the actual destination.

If you've got a question, then wait till you hear me say the phone number.

There aren't any phone lines free at the moment, but because there are two rules,

there will be some phone lines free in a couple of minutes' time.

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