(Host Stephen) Fry thought it "bizarre" that Yamaguchi, pictured on a large screen between two mushroom clouds, was able to travel by train so soon after the disaster, prompting panellists to poke fun at Britain's public transport.
Fry said: "Well, this man is either the unluckiest or the luckiest, depending on which way you look at it."
Panellist Alan Davies speculated that the bomb landed on Yamaguchi and "bounced off", adding: "He never got the train again, I tell you."
Fellow panellist Rob Brydon quipped: "Is the glass half empty, is it half full? Either way it's radioactive. So don't drink it!"
They speaking about Tsutomu Yamaguchi who was survived both atomic bomb attacks on Japan in August 1945
A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15am on August 6, 1945. The following day he returned to Nagasaki and, despite his wounds, returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing. In 1957 he was recognized as a hibakusha (explosion-affected person) of the Nagasaki bombing, but it was not until March 24, 2009 that the government of Japan officially recognised his presence in Hiroshima three days
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