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Four minutes after at 12, allow me to issue a cast iron guarantee live on your radio.

If you listen to the rest of this hour, you will know more by one o'clock than you do now.

If you don't, I'll give you a full refund.

Absolutely all your money back. How can I be so

certain of this? Because it has never once, in all the years of mystery houring, it has never

once failed to deliver. Now, of course I have to add that the information that you

receive may not prove useful in any way, but it will be more than you've currently got.

That, I think, is a caveat, isn't it? But anyway, the way it works is this. You may have seen

the newspaper equivalence of this, the newspaper columns, the notes and queries, the Q&As,

the opportunity to write in and ask a question and then hope that somebody

maybe weeks, days, months later, will write in with the answer. Today you get immediate satisfaction.

This is an exercise, an instant gratification of an intellectual nature. So if you hear

someone ask a question and you know the answer to it, give me a ring, tell me what the answer is.

And there's something else I'd mention as well. There's only two reasons why we won't take

your call, but the chaps on the phones have to move really, really quickly. Michael and

Stephen will be your stewards today, and they're doing their best to answer the phones as

quickly as they can. But if the question just doesn't work, if it's boring, sorry, if it's boring, then move along. And if it's

repetitious, i.e., if it's something we've dealt with relatively recently and can remember

dealing with, we won't return to that either. There's a brilliant archive at lbc.co.uk,

which is almost as enjoyable as the program itself. So you can see there a fairly

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