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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Will sat nav work when you're 30,000ft up in a plane?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5987 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mystery hour today included, why does it take so long to fly to Australia, will sat nav work when you're high up in a plane, why don't the apostles have surnames and why are women referred to as birds when birds are male and female?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Sainsbury's. Do anything to help my money stretch a bit further this time of year?

0:03.6

Well, we're always matching and lowering prices. So every week, hundreds of Sainsbury's fresh and everyday products are price match to Aldi.

0:09.7

And every week, with nectar, you can save money on thousands of your family's favourite brands.

0:14.3

So your money can go further while you don't have to.

0:16.9

Looking for ways to save money? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's, good food for all of us.

0:22.3

Selected products.

0:23.2

Aldi Price Match, not in NI.

0:24.5

Nectar Prices require nectar account.

0:26.0

Terms, Sainsbridge.com.

0:28.2

And necter.com slash prices terms.

0:30.0

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

0:36.2

LBC 97.3 Mystery hour with James O'Brien.

0:42.8

Three minutes after 12, and this is LBC 97.3. Time now.

0:48.8

For something completely different. You know those radio, newspaper features where readers write in with a question and then other readers, hopefully, over the days, weeks, sometimes even months furnish readers with an answer. Well, this is the radio equivalent of that. I'd like to claim it was the original and the best, but I'm almost certain that my colleague Clive Bull,

1:11.7

who is the doyen of radio phone-in hosts in this country,

1:15.1

has done something similar in years gone by and completely forgotten about it.

1:19.2

But Mystery Hour remains very, very popular,

1:21.7

and if you haven't heard it before, you will soon understand why.

1:24.9

It's not necessarily about the destination.

1:29.4

It has an awful lot more to do with the journey, I think. The way it works is this. You pick up your phone and dial 0845-60609-7-3 if you have an

1:36.5

answer, a question which you have been unable to find an answer to. It's a movable feast. There

1:43.5

aren't really any rules. We guard against

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