What's in a name? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as Andy delves into the world of Japanese monikers and unearths romanticism, conservatism, confusion and a lot of bilingual double-entendres too.

STAVKA rock out with the experimental piece "We Have Come For What's Left of Your Mind", before Dave lifts the curtain on the stereotype of the ultra-polite and civilised Japanese.

This week Andy and Dave get all serious about cetaceans: that's whales, dolphins and porpoises to you.

We look at Japan's attempts to restart commercial whaling, the killing and eating of dolphins at Taiji, and then take a look at what those folk on the Faeroe Islands get up to.

This leads into a somewhat heated debate about the nature of cetaceans and whether or not they are special animals. From here we get into a wider discussion concerning man and his place within the animal kingdom.

Heavy, man - but don't worry - there are still a few quips!

On the musical front we return to alternative rock, as Andy's band STAVKA perform "Vinegar Tom" for your listening pleasure.

The lads return with a live broadcast from a very humid Peace Memorial Park in the centre of Hiroshima.

We hear how Dave's ditch-digging resulted in no episode last week, before launching into talk of summer plans: Andy will head for Kyoto and Norway, while Dave will head towards another ditch, which may or may not be full of newts.

A brief chat about the ugliness of Japanese parks and their lack of grass leads us to Easter Islanders playing the cryptically-named techno piece "92,000 yen". Andy then tells us how the title was inspired by his encountered with the Hiroshima police a few years back, after which we learn of Dave's immigration misdemeanour.

Finally we treat you to a short extract form the aborted podcast with our friend Mr.B, before wandering over to the Peace Bell to wrap things up with a dong for peace...

Sorry folks - we have been experiencing severe scheduling difficulties of late and so could not get an episode done last week. Hopefully this week will be fine, and so expect another dollop of A-Bomb City to land on your doorstep next Saturday, July 15th !

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...