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12.04 is the time you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where we're about to embark upon our weekly journey into the temporarily unknown.

I say temporarily because by 1 o'clock today, it will be known and you will know more than you now.

That's my guarantee. I can't promise you'll be grateful for the information or that it will prove to be of any constructive use whatsoever in the rest of your natural life, but it will at least be more knowledge than you've got now.

It sort of works a bit like those newspaper columns, which you are almost certainly familiar with,

where someone writes in on a Monday and says, why do we do that? What's the origin of that? Where

does that come from? If this happened, what would happen next? And what where, why, when, whither,

what wherefore and whence? And then a week later, someone else writes in with the answer.

This is altogether more immediate. This is the originally interactive.

So I've got phone lines free.

I told you last week, we're getting it so popular now that new people ringing in,

and we're very grateful and in no way am I seeking to discourage you,

but it does mean we have an awful lot of repetition

or people who haven't quite got the hang of the no dullness rule. And that means

the best time to hit redar is in the first 20 minutes of Mystery Hour, because that is the time

when we're politely turning away the most number of people. 034-5-60-60973 is the number to call. If you've

got a question that isn't boring, and I know that's a bit unkind, but isn't repetitious either.

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