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This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by Winklepickers! We’ve got Brian May and Roger Taylor in a band before they became part of Queen… an Aussie band covering Eleanor Rigby… a one-hit-wonder from John Fred and his Playboy Band… plus an accidental invention, fun factoids and phobias. 

Serendipity is the word in this week’s podcast… those wonderful parts of life that are totally unplanned but make for unforgettable memories. There’s music from 16yo Billy Field in a band called King Fox, Johnny Cash with a terrific cover, a one-hit wonder from The Vapours, Leonard Cohen remembering The Chelsea Hotel and Placido Domingo performs Yesterday. There are fun factoids, another accidenta...

This week’s podcast is called Euphoric Phlegm because we reveal a survey’s finding of the five worst and best sounding words in the English language. There’s Neil Young in a band before he became famous, movie trivia, a great cover from Urge Overkill, Bobby McFerrin is the one-hit-wonder and you mightn’t know the singer Noel Harrison but you’ll know the song that won an Oscar. And, as usual, there...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by an Ultracrepidarian. There’s Phil Collins before he joined Genesis in a band called Flaming Youth… A cover of a Prince song knocks Prince out of the park, Gallery provides the one-hit-wonder, there is an unlikely duet from Janis Joplin and Tom Jones plus unscripted silliness, trivia and fun factoids. 

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by Bumfiddling, and that may not be what you are thinking! There’s AC/DC’s Bon Scott singing bubblegum, a fabulous cover song that had its origins a century earlier, a terrific one-hit wonder and a surprising version of Smells Like Teen Spirit plus trivia, fun factoids and some random reminiscing. 

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast we ask the question, Are You a Tidsoptimist?  We have Ringo Starr drumming up a storm before he joined The Beatles in Rory Storm and The Hurricanes… There’s a fabulous cover song that most people think is the original… The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band drop in with their one-hit-wonder… There’s the first ever posthumous number one from Otis Redding plus a few un...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is called Ocker Shocker because of something embarrassing that happened to Dave… There’s a song from Tom and Jerry – that was the duet’s name before Simon and Garfunkel… Jimi Hendrix provides one of the best ever covers… Minnie Ripperton’s perfect love song is the one-hit-wonder… We dig up another member of the 27 Club, Jim Morrison from The Doors, and Marvi...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Elton John performing as Reggie Dwight in a band he called Bluesology… Sting performing a cover of an Elton John classic… a one hit wonder from The Cascades… we dig up Brian Jones for a trip down Rolling Stones Lane and Elvis enters the building… plus regular segments of fun factoids, trivia and an invention that happened by accident. 

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast we ask the question, Are You a Scurryfunger? As well as trivia, fun factoids and random chat, there’s Billy Joel in a duet called Atilla before he became famous as The Piano Man… The best cover ever of Sound of Silence… in Stone Cold we dig up the marvelous Mama Cass and Ray Charles makes an appearance. 

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is called Show Us Your Tittles but tittles may not be what you think! As usual, there's some great music including a song from a singer before he became famous, a cover song that may surprise, a one-hit wonder, a super-group single and a beautiful rendition of Yesterday plus fun factoids, trivia, random chat and an invention that happened by mistake.

Clatterfart is a Northern England and Scottish word that dates back to the 1500s. It means a talkative person and that describes Dave and Ian, the hosts of this new 30-minute podcast series called Almost a Radio Show. There's some great music along with trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.

Very excited about the upcoming MSing About podcast series, Almost a Radio Show. Dave Prior will be joining Ian each week for a 30-minute podcast that has great music, quirky music and one-hit wonders plus Word of the Week, trivia, obscure factoids, inventions that happened by accident and spontaneous silliness because neither Dave nor Ian will be telling each other what they will be individually...

Ernie Dingo played Uncle Tadpole in the movie Bran Nue Dae. He also taught me how to tickle trout. He is just one of several Indigenous (and non-Indigenous) Australians who helped shape my social conscious. 

Still MSing About with Australian history and this week, Black Bushrangers from 1788 to 1901 – six blokes and a lady! 

The Frontier Wars between British settlers and Indigenous Australians went from 1788 to 1934 and this podcast looks specifically at one horrendous massacre and two rather extraordinary Aboriginal people.

For 28 years Nosey Bob Howard was the official hangman in New South Wales. Of the 62 hangings, 19% were a bit botched leaving good marks to 81% of the executions. Somewhere between a Credit and a Distinction, I guess. But what about the poor journalists who had to witness and graphically describe the events for the newspapers? Warning. Some gruesome content.

This time of year always brings up the debate about whether January 26 is Australia Day or Invasion Day. Ian offers his thoughts and looks at some of the Indigenous people who greeted the First Fleet settlers like Bennelong, Pemulwuy, Barangaroo and Bungaree.

Two major recent discoveries... one, that there were 12 black American ex-slaves aboard the First Fleet and one of them, John Randall, sits on a distant branch of the Heydon family tree.

This week’s podcast is MSing About with writing tips and pointers on how to write sketch comedy with a few examples from my archive…

It’s 2025 and the first podcast for the year – it’s time for New Year Resolutions!

It's the final podcast for 2024. There's some general memoir tipping using a memoir I co-wrote with my mate, Dave Prior, who is a musician and comedian. You don't have to be either of those to use the tips, but getting to meet Dave should be enjoyable in itself!

My Christmas has certainly changed since I was a kid. Has yours? Christmas memories can easily find their way into a memoir.

Sometimes nature can serve up a lifetime of memories in just a few seconds, minutes or hours and there's a place in a memoir for such events... could be a cyclone, an eathquake, a green flash, an eclipse or a turtle giving birth.

This week’s memoir podcast is titled Flights of Fancy because it is mainly about crossing paths with two aviation adventurers, Bob Gannon and Dick Smith.

This week’s memoir podcast is titled A Few Famous Failures… three joint ventures I shared with an actor mate, Shane Withington.