A-Bomb City Podcast
Two Brits in Hiroshima laugh at history, literature, politics, music and life in Japan
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ABC - RIP
Well, there it is, dear listeners, the A-Bomb City Podcast is no more! The executive committee of the board of directors of the governors and trustees of the sponsors in tandem with the action group, helmsman, caterers, writers, technical staff and the cleaning lady have just adjourned an emergency ...
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Trouble...
Sorry about the lack of shows, but things are in a state of flux within the A-Bomb City camp....More details to follow shortly...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #50
The A-Bomb City Easter Extravaganza, featuring a squeaking Japanese Easter Bunny, reminiscences of childhood chocolate eggs, and...er...nothing else to do with Easter.Dave reveals his new internet venture, a website featuring 100-word book reviews, and kicks it off with a summary of Eric Hoffer's li ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #49
This week we kick off with that most important of questions - do the Japanese eat grasshoppers? From here we follow up with an amazing tale of how you can find honey armed with only a long piece of cotton, which somehow gets mixed up with David's fish-selling exploits of yore. Next our hosts d ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #48
We're back! The usual poorly-recorded rambling returns. Find out what fun Dave had with the trains back in Britain, and listen to part one of Andy's 'Kyushu Diary', detailing his exploits on his recent trip to that particular Japanese island.Another rude rubbing story from Hiroshima's trams, and the ...
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Soon....very soon....
Reports are coming in of stirrings in the A-Bomb City Podcast studio. Dust has been wiped from the mixing desk...microphone stands are in position...two comfy chairs are arranged around the computer screen...a crate of beer and several packets of peanuts have been strategically placed between the ch ...
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More Delay
Well, Dave came back from his holiday a while back, but his 18-hour shifts at the coalface have not enabled him to attend recording sessions. That's what he says, anyway! Tomorrow I'm off to Kyushu for a two-week trip, so there won't be any new shows until the end of March. Sorry about that. Maybe n ...
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Delay
Well, we said our respective holiday trips wouldn't affect delivery of shows - but we were wrong! Apologies for the delay - something should hopefully be up by Saturday...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #47
This week kicks off with a pungent tale of what the Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere did when he met Queen Elizabeth I.Next we hear about our hosts' holiday plans - Dave is set to visit dear old Albion during the most dismal month of the year weather wise, there to spend jolly hours in the family mansi ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #46
This week Andy tells us of his miserable day at the university and subsequent humiliation in the guitar shop, while Dave enjoys a chunk of schadenfreude.Next up, we hear some more mangled English from a pudding-faced young lady under Dave's academic supervision, after which Andy goes off on a ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #45
Today's show comes live from the dining table of Dave's pad in the western suburbs of Hiroshima.First we bring up the question of the Japanese and cleanliness - are they as squeaky-clean as they would like us to believe? Evidence from the classrooms of various universities in these parts would seem ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #44
The A-Bomb City Emergency Podcast Episode: listen at your peril!A regular show not being possible this week, a seemingly unconnected collection of outtakes and unused material from the cutting room floor have been glued together between classic songs from Osaka's finest, Shonen Knife (www.shonenknif ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #43
The lads are back in the studio this week for a bumper helping of good ol' drunken incoherent rambling - just like the old days, eh?Kicking off with peaty whiskeys from the Isle of Islay, talk then meanders past the late quiz show host and Icelandic scholar Magnus Magnusson, an attack of the winter ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #42
In this episode Dave is out and about Hiroshima doing the roving reporter bit while Andy tries to nail it all together back in the studio.First we get to listen to a fun Japanese DVD which instructs youngsters how to wipe their arses properly in the by now obligatory toilet humour section.We then fo ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #41
This week's fix of ABC takes us out of the studio and on to the streets of Hiroshima.Beginning in a cafe, the lads soon move off to a 'karaoke box' to talk about what New Year means for the Japanese: sunrises, special food that looks good but tastes awful, and the obligatory exchange of meaningless ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #40
Dave returns to the studio, and Andy relates to him a scary tale of shady mafia guys, spicy Chinese food and the perils of frequenting hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Hiroshima. Somewhere along the way giant squid drop in, and we learn why pudgy cricket umpires are submerged in a mountain of white j ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #39
In this (slighty) festive episode Andy is joined in the studio by local writer Andrew Kozelka who gets all serious about life in Japan and the world of literature, despite Andy's best attempts to derail him by dollops of the obligatory A-Bomb City crap humour.Along the way we hear some jolly Christm ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #38
Knee-deep in high oriental culture and tradition this week, as Dave interviews a doctor acquaintance about his musical pastime: playing the 'shakuhachi', a Japanese species of flute. After the interview we move straight to the concert hall, where we treat you to a live recording of the good do ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #37
An unusual episode in which both our regular hosts are out and about in different directions, digital recorders in hand, with Andy pasting it all together back in the studio.Dave presents a recording of traditional Japanese songs rendered by an old gentleman acquaintance to an audience of appr ...
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A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #36
Starting with another crap joke, the lads soon venture into the unlikely territory of animal noises and how they are represented in both English and Japanese. Points are awarded for their comparative realism...Andy's musical persona STAVKA (www.ardle.net/stavkahome.htm) play the abrasive rocker &quo ...
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