Is modern man a wimp and are we all hemmed in by the 'system'? We kick off with this little conundrum, via a revelation that Dave will be translating for Desmond Tutu, and a sidetrack into classroom violence. Meanwhile a small child invades the studio and makes annoying noises in the background.

Talk of tea and coffee crops up next, and we discuss our caffeine preferences in response to a listener's question, after which Andy tells us how he tries to make young ladies laugh during the solemn Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Next a musical tribute to the late Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks as we play 'Read About Seymour' by Swell Maps from 1977. Rest in peace, my brothers...

Andy then introduces the fabulous 'Hooting Yard' podcast (http://hooting.yard.users.btopenworld.com/), a weekly half hour of baffling, erudite, funny, vertiginously bizarre, digressive, obsessive and eccentric tales from writer Frank Key.

More music, this time some industrial metal from Andy's early 90's Berlin outfit 'Thanatoid' - the track, 'Brutal Essen Reintun', translates into English as 'feed me brutally'...quite!

Then Dave steps in to bring us yet more Japanese idioms, this time 'to take a back seat' and to 'play second fiddle'.

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