Three minutes after 12 is the time, and I suppose there is room for a couple of royal-flavored questions during this week's mystery.

Or ordinarily, though, you know how, well, you may not know how it works. Why would I be so presumptuous?

This is the radio equivalent of those newspaper and magazine features, wherein readers write in with a question which they haven't been able to find an answer to, and other readers provide them with some satisfaction.

This is slightly different in that you get your answers pretty much immediately.

You're not allowed to look up in any way answers.

So if you hear someone else ask a question and you know the answer to it, then give me a ring.

If we start looking stuff up on Google or employing Encyclopedia Britannica,

it makes a mockery of the whole idea.

It's a celebration of learning.

It's actually a sort of unfashionable attempt to celebrate knowledge.

So if you've got the knowledge, that you need, to answer one of these questions,

you know what to do.

Phone lines are already full, but presumably a few of these people will be asking questions that either we've dealt with or which Carolide and Rosie decide are not up to sniff for our purposes.

If you want to find out what criteria are employed when deciding whether or not a question is up to sniff, it's really all about dullness.

If it's dull, you don't get on. How do you know whether it's dull or not? It's pretty hard. You should have an instinct. But if it's a question to which only you are going to be

interested in the answer, then quite possibly it's not going to make the grade. It's not

going to make the final cut. Five minutes after 12 is the time. You're listening to

Mistria with James O'Brien on LBC. I think we've covered pretty much everything. I usually make two guarantees. One is that you will know more by one o'clock today than you do now.

I make that promise in full confidence that it will be realized. I can't add to it, and you might have forgotten it again by five past one.

You might never, ever, ever find any vague use for the knowledge that you learn in the course of the next

54 minutes or so, but you will know more by 1 o'clock than you do now.

I remind you of the number when phone lines free themselves up, and as a nod to my friend

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