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  • Now, what's so lucky about the unluckiest man in the world?

  • That's not him, incidentally, but that's an amusing assemblage of superstitions.

  • He got killed by a horseshoe.

  • Yeah, well, this man is either the unluckiest or the luckiest, depends which way you look at it.

  • Something like he's had more operations or accidents or anything, or claims direct things than anybody else that's still alive.

  • Bear in mind that we're after places and countries and things, beginning with H.

  • And if I tell you his name, this may help, his name is Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

  • I say is, he actually died in January 2010, at age 93, so he lived a long time, so he wasn't that unlucky, you may say.

  • So, where's the hate there with the H?

  • Yamaguchi would suggest he came from Holland.

  • LAUGHTER Parrot, you can do better than that.

  • I would have said Japan.

  • Japan.

  • Now think of a place in Japan that begins with H.

  • Hiroshima.

  • Hiroshima, right.

  • He was...

  • A bomb landed on him and he bounced off.

  • LAUGHTER No, he was in Hiroshima on business when the bomb went off.

  • Yes.

  • He was badly burned, he spent a night there.

  • He went to hospital in Nagasaki.

  • The next day, he got on a train, bizarrely, which shows you that even though the atom bomb fell, the trains were working.

  • So he got on a train to Nagasaki and a bomb fell again.

  • And he was celebrated, he became a sort of hero, but only in his 90s, he was officially recognised as the man who was bombed twice.

  • He claims that there were over 100 people he met who also had that same or similar experience, and he had a network of friends, but he was a cheerful fellow.

  • I don't see he lived and looked cheerful and died aged 93, so...

  • He doesn't look that cheerful, does he?

  • No, well, he waits between two mushroom clouds.

  • It's happening again.

  • What a chance.

  • Yeah, it is astonishing.

  • He's either the luckiest cos he survived an atom bomb twice, or the unluckiest because...

  • But he lived to be 93, so he didn't have, you know, he was not, his life was not curtailed.

  • No, exactly.

  • I think it's, you know, is the glass half empty?

  • That's...

  • Either way, it's radioactive.

  • LAUGHTER So don't drink it.

  • And he never got on a train again.

  • The astonishing thing to me is that you drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima and the train service is working the next day.

  • I mean, in our country...

  • Keep calm and carry on.

  • A couple of leaves.

  • Yeah, that's it for the rest of the winter.

  • He's quite extraordinary.

  • The wrong kind of bomb.

  • Oh, it's the wrong kind of bomb.

  • It was clearly the right kind of bomb.

  • It's fine, everybody, don't worry, it's the right kind of bomb.

  • A right kind of bomb has landed on the 4.30 from Potter's Bar.

  • Please proceed to the nuclear area.

  • I suspect they weren't privately owned.

  • These sandwiches have not been affected.

Now, what's so lucky about the unluckiest man in the world?

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