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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered "why", then this is the hour for you. Sometimes simple, sometimes intelligent, but almost always entertaining, probably the best hour of radio you could ever download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach.

0:05.0

On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours?

0:10.2

Calm's herbal remedies.

0:12.2

Calm's days, a traditional herbal medicine used for stress, exclusively based on traditional

0:16.6

use only, contains Valerian root, always read the label.

0:22.2

This is LBC, leading Britain's conversation.

0:26.9

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:29.9

Call 0345-60-973.

0:35.1

Tweet at LBC.

0:37.5

Text 84850. Mystery Hour with James O'Brien on LBC.

0:46.1

Four minutes after 12 is the time you are listening to Mystery Hour on LBC, as the man with a

0:51.2

deep voice just told you. The way this works is relatively straightforward,

0:54.5

but you'll indulge me for a moment and allow me to explain.

0:58.0

You've probably got something bubbling away in the back of your brain that needs fixing.

1:01.5

This isn't a medical exercise.

1:03.3

This is an exercise in intellectual enlightenment, or possibly silly stuff.

1:07.2

Both usually get fairly well represented in the course of this hour.

1:10.3

You ring in with the question, why do we do that? Where does that come from? What's that all about? When? When, why, where, whither? Wherefore? Whence? Any interrogative pronoun you like, actually. I don't think we've ever had a wither. Straight to the front of the queue if you've got a wither. And someone else listening to the same program, we'll hear your question and go, oh, my light bulbs just come on, I know the answer.

1:28.6

And if that person is you, ring in with the answer.

1:30.9

And that is pretty much it.

1:32.4

Simple though it sounds.

1:33.5

It's often the simplest things that provide the most pleasure.

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