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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why don't squirrels eat conkers?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 43 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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is LBC from global, leading Britain's conversation, mystery hour with James O'Brien.

0:07.4

Four minutes after 12 is the time. You are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where we embark now upon our weekly adventure.

0:15.3

Do you know, I used to say our weekly adventure into the unknown, but we are now living in the unknown,

0:19.2

and it's about to get even more unknown than it is now. In fact, compared to how unknown it's going to be after March

0:23.4

2019, this is seriously known, but it's still unknown. So this is not your weekly adventure

0:28.0

into the unknown. We're living in the unknown. This is your weekly adventure into the

0:31.6

slightly surreal world of Mystery Hour, where you have a rare opportunity to achieve the

0:37.4

sort of intellectual satisfaction,

0:39.0

not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio dial.

0:41.9

In a nutshell, you have a question bubbling away in the back of your brain,

0:46.1

to which you know there must be an answer, but you have thus far been unable to find that answer.

0:51.1

You are not going to revert to a search

0:54.3

engine. It may be that you wouldn't be able to find

0:56.0

the answer there, but this is an hour

0:58.0

of radio predicated, built

1:00.0

entirely upon knowledge

1:02.0

and education.

1:04.1

So, I guess

1:06.2

it's kind of going to have quite a remainer

1:08.1

flavour. It's a celebration of

1:10.2

intelligence, of intellectual

1:11.9

accumulation, of enlightenment and elucidation. Someone rings in with a question, you already know

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