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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why is Hippos milk pink? 21st March

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5987 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Could you fly through Saturn and Jupiter as surrounded by gas? Why is hippos milk pink? Why are hardback books published before paperbacks?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sam used to worry about rising energy prices, but not since fixing his tariff.

0:07.0

Instead of spending hours looking for deals, he just relaxes in the shower.

0:12.0

Singing, rather badly.

0:16.0

Because with a British gas fixed tariff, you're protected against future price rises.

0:20.0

And if we release a cheaper fixed tariff, you can switch to it, absolutely free.

0:25.3

Search British gas tariffs.

0:27.1

Eligibility in seasoncy supply.

0:31.6

The promise that I issue to you is that by 1 o'clock today, you will know more than you do now.

0:38.1

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:45.0

And that is the guarantee. It does exactly what it says on the tin. If you do not know more, by one o'clock today, having listened to the next hour of this program, then I'll

0:54.5

give you your money back. Absolutely. I see what? Oh, well, I'll find some other way of

0:59.3

making it up to you. Mystery Hour is the radio equivalent of those perennially popular

1:04.2

newspaper features where readers submit a question to which they have failed despite their most

1:09.3

frenzied and committed efforts

1:11.1

to secure a satisfactory answer. It is the who's, the whys, the wheres, the whewens, the withers

1:16.3

and the whither's and the whir? Why do we do this? What would happen if, where does that come

1:19.3

from? Why do we do this? And somebody else listening, of course, we'll know the answer.

1:24.4

Because of that rather poignant encounter running up to the 12 o'clock news,

1:31.0

it obviously means that I haven't wet your appetite in the traditional sense. So the phone lines are

1:36.6

actually open. You've got a better chance of getting through now than you will have at any point,

1:40.3

probably in the next hour. But if you hear me say the number, it means that there are a few chinks,

1:44.3

or at least a chink in the armour of my switchboard 0845-6060973 is the number to call. We've

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