'Someone had left a pile of old baked beans sitting there in my ear canal'

An intrepid BBC journalist goes to a Japanese ear-cleaning salon to get the gunk trowelled out of his murky canals, and learns about the traditional art of ear cleansing. The clinic deployed a special ear-camera to display his progress towards a shiny ear canal, but by the sound of it, the experience is not for the faint-hearted...

Source: BBC