This week's episode kicks off with a tale of a podcasting disaster: how our last recoding session resulted in the guest presenter being carted off to hospital!

Next we introduce you to "Candy Girl", the adult-sized sillicone female companion with detachable parts who may be responsible for Japan's declining birthrate.

Easter Islanders, Andy's techno outfit, come up with the song "Pure Essence of Carsten Meissner", after which we learn the sad story of the gentleman named in the title.

Website of the Week features www.stumbleupon.com, where you can get a toolbar for your browswer that lets you surf the web in an intelligent and personalised way.

Being July 1st, we commemorate the Battle of the Somme which kicked off on that date 90 years ago, and our presenters tell us what their respective grandfathers were up to at that time.

The English are currently facing another kind of battle in the soccer World Cup, a tournament from which Japan have recently been eliminated. Dave tells of the case of too many yellow cards, and then has to unexpectedly disappear in connection with something else of a yellow colour...

We wrap up with more tales of dolls, this time in the shape of an old Japanese horror story...