Just Passing Through Podcast
Step into 'Just Passing Through,' the podcast that chronicles my Yorkshireman adventures navigating the maze of Japanese life. No guarantees of laughter, but we promise a healthy dose of raised eyebrows and bemused chuckles. In each episode, we'll explore the quirky intersections of cultures, from attempting to decipher the intricacies of local customs to introducing Japan to the wonders of a proper brew. It's a podcast where culture shock meets dry Yorkshire wit – a journey through the everyday absurdities that make life interesting. So, if you're up for a laid-back, eyebrow-raising, and occasionally head-scratching experience, hit that download button. 'Just Passing Through' – where each episode is a detour into the unpredictable and a reminder that life's little oddities are the spice of the journey." Enjoy,Darren.
Episodes
Episode 223
Fog drifts over the East End of London. The narrow alleys echo with the clatter of horse hooves and the cries of market traders. But beneath the noise and bustle lies another world — one of ragged children huddled in doorways, barefoot, hungry, and forgotten. Into this desperate landscape walks a young man with a fiery vision. Trained in medicine, driven by faith, and stirred by compassion, he dar...
Episode 222
"On the far southwestern edge of Britain, where the Atlantic hurls itself against granite cliffs and the wind scours the land raw, lies a village small in size but vast in legend. Mousehole, a Cornish fishing port with roots older than memory, has known hardship, hunger, and the endless pull of the sea. But one winter’s night, as storms raged and bellies ached with want, a single fisherman da...
Episode 221
In a sun-scorched town outside Guadalajara, a skinny boy with freckled skin and bright red hair stood out like a flame in the crowd. The locals teased him, called him Canelo — cinnamon. But the name that began as a joke would soon echo through packed arenas, whispered with awe and respect.
This is the story of how a boy, marked from birth by difference, carved his way through hardship, fists blazi...
Episode 220
On the streets of Omaha, Nebraska, a boy learns to fight long before he ever steps into a boxing ring.
It’s not a game. It’s survival.
Every punch, every scar, every lesson in pain becomes a step toward something greater.
From narrow neighborhood gyms to the bright lights of world arenas, his journey is as much about resilience as it is about skill.
This is the story of how grit, discipl...
Episode 219
In the dark heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, resistance was more than an act of defiance—it was a gamble with certain death. Among those who dared to play this deadly game was a young Slovak soldier named Jozef Gabčík. Trained in Britain, parachuted into his homeland, and tasked with a mission few would ever return from, he carried with him both a Sten gun and an iron resolve. His target? One of the...
Episode 218
The 1960s. A decade of revolution. Music, fashion, youth culture—all exploding in colour and sound. Out of this whirlwind steps a boy from Manchester, slight in stature but larger than life, with charm enough to disarm the world. He isn’t meant to be here. His path was toward the racetrack, not the stage. Yet fate has other plans.
In a time when television brings idols into living rooms, when teenage dreams ...
Episode 217
His life begins in turbulence and ends in mystery. Orphaned before he can form a memory, carried from place to place, he grows in the shadow of loss. Genius fuels his pen, yet poverty dogs his steps. He loves deeply, yet death claims those closest to him. In taverns and lecture halls, on quiet streets and in crowded parlors, he moves like a man marked by fate. Through each hardship, he writes — st...
Episode 216
He was a giant of a man, both in size and in reputation. Peter Grant, the manager who turned Led Zeppelin into the biggest band on the planet, wasn’t cut from the same cloth as other music executives. Fiercely loyal, brutally protective, and unafraid of confrontation, he ripped up the old rules of the music business and wrote new ones that shifted power from the record labels to the artists. But b...
Episode 215
The war is raging across Europe. German U-boats stalk the Atlantic, threatening to cut Britain off from supplies. Hitler’s armies seem unstoppable. But in a quiet English country house, a small group of mathematicians, chess players, and linguists are working around the clock on something invisible—an enemy of numbers and codes.
At the centre of this effort is a quiet, awkward man. He’s brilliant, ...
Episode 214
It’s the 1980s.
America’s malls are packed. Rock ‘n’ roll blares from cassette players. Kids trade action figures like currency. And in living rooms across the country, a new kind of superhero body-slams his way into pop culture.
Towering, tanned, wrapped in red and yellow, he’s part-myth, part-man. He preaches vitamins and prayers. He flexes, points, and growls his way through TV screens, are...
Episode 213
Before he was the Prince of Darkness, before the bat, the bites, and the black leather — there was just John Michael Osbourne. A working-class kid from Aston, Birmingham, born into poverty, dyslexia, and a life that didn’t seem to promise much more than the factory floor. But behind the thick accent and troubled childhood was a voice that would one day shake the world.
This isn’t just the story of a heavy me...
Episode 212
He had the glasses, the grit, and the gall to defy cycling tradition. With flowing blond hair and an unapologetic attitude, Laurent Fignon wasn’t just racing the clock—he was battling a sport that didn’t always welcome rebels. Twice a Tour de France champion, he was as famous for how he won as for the heartbreak of how he lost. But behind the headlines and heartbreak was a rider of rare intelligence, elegan...
Episode 211
He wasn’t born a symbol.
He didn’t grow up dreaming of shaking up City Hall, or of becoming a voice for millions who’d been told to stay silent. Harvey Milk was a Navy veteran. A math teacher. A camera shop owner. And for much of his early life, he kept his identity tucked away—hidden from view, like so many others in his generation.
But when he finally decided to live out loud, everything cha...
Episode 210
Imagine a voice—calm, curious, playful—asking you whether you are the universe pretending to be a person.
In the chaotic swirl of 20th-century thought, where science clashed with religion and the East met the West in coffeehouses and lecture halls, one man emerged not with answers, but with questions that made the answers irrelevant. He wore tweed jackets, quoted Lao Tzu with a cigarette in hand, and turned ...
Episode 209
He wasn’t born into a football dynasty. He didn’t grow up in the spotlight. But Diogo Jota carved out his own place in the world of football — with grit, precision, and an eye for goal that left fans across Europe speechless.
From the streets of Massarelos to the thunder of Anfield, he rose quietly, steadily — the underdog who outworked the odds. For club and country, he gave everything. Every run, every fin...
Episode 208
He wasn’t looking for fame.
He wasn’t trying to get rich.
Armed with a piece of chalk and a head full of wild ideas, Keith Haring hit the subways of New York like a lightning bolt. While others walked past empty black panels, he filled them with bold, dancing figures — babies, barking dogs, radiant hearts — pulsing with joy, anger, and something else... something deeper.
This wasn’t graffiti. This wasn’t...
Episode 207
In the early hours of September 26, 1983, one man stood between the world and nuclear war. A quiet, unassuming lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, Stanislav Petrov was stationed in a bunker outside Moscow, monitoring the skies for signs of a U.S. missile attack. When the alarm sounded, and all systems insisted that destruction was imminent, Petrov hesitated. He questioned what the...
Episode 206
He was the face of fire and fury. A punk with jet-black eyes, a sneer that could cut glass, and a voice that turned dance floors into battlegrounds. But offstage, he was a soft-spoken Essex lad who loved motorbikes, dogs, and long country walks.
Keith Flint didn’t just front The Prodigy—he became their weapon. A symbol of 90s rave rebellion, channelling raw energy into something both cha...
Episode 205
He was a stockbroker with a drinking problem. A man who’d tasted the high life, only to lose it all to the bottle. But in a moment of utter despair, something changed. And from that darkness, he lit a spark that would go on to save millions.
Before rehab centres, before addiction was widely understood, there was just one man, trying to help another stay sober—one day at a time.
This is the story of Bill Wilso...
Episode 204
She was hailed as one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen. A Hollywood starlet in the golden age of cinema, her face lit up movie theatres around the world. But behind the glamour and fame was a brilliant mind few ever recognized. At a time when women were rarely seen as inventors, she quietly co-developed a technology that would become the foundation for GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
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