About this podcast
Ian is an award-winning comedy writer with MS and in the current series, Almost a Radio Show, he teams up with his singer/comedian mate, Dave Prior, for a weekly half-hour of great music, trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 172 episodes
- Almost a Radio Show - Scripturient! · 28 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Ian Anderson and other Tull members in a band before they became Jethro Tull… Johnny Cash and The Highwaymen have the cover song… The Cuff…
- Almost a Radio Show - Acersecomic! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Sammy Hagar in a band before he joined Van Halen… Can any of a number of top artists better the original Four Tops classic…
- Almost a Radio Show - The Boogieman! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Joe Cocker in a band before he became Joe Cocker… Stand by Me still stands up after more than 60 years and there’s a…
- Almost a Radio Show- Heebie-Jeebies! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Jeff Lynne before the Electric Light Orchestra in a band called The Idle Race… Louis Armstrong with the first ever scat song……
- Almost a Radio Show - Penitent! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast, Benny Andersson in a band before ABBA was created… can the original (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction be beaten by a cover?... the one-hit…
- Almost a Radio Show - Parlour! · 28 minThis week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Engelbert Humperdink before he became, well, Engelbert Humperdink… the cover is If by Bread, but is it Telly Savalas or Olivia…
- Almost a Radio Show - Moribund! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Meatloaf in a band called Popcorn Blizzard before he became famous… Bob Dylan covers Simon & Garfunkel… the one-hit-wonder is Jeans On… we…
- Almost a Radio Show - Panglossian! · 28 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Seal in a band called Push (before he became Seal)… UB40 covers a Neil Diamond song and owns it… the One-Hit-Wonder is Neverending Story… We…
- Almost a Radio Show - Fudgel! · 28 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Ricky Martin in a band when he was aged about 12 in Puerto Rico… the cover song is by Simply Red (covering a Mick Hucknel song from his…
- Almost a Radio Show - Nemotia! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Elvis Costello in a band before he changed his name from Declan McManus… the cover song is from The Youngbloods… there is an earworm…
- Almost a Radio Show - Sombrero! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Barry White in a band before Love Unlimited… there’s a cover song that went to Number One for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and The Pet Shop…
- Almost a Radio Show - Kakorrhaphiophobia! · 29 minIn this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast – Did you know that a band called Kara’s Flowers was the forerunner to Maroon 5? Do you know what song was a hit for The Supremes…
- Almost a Radio Show - Maugry! · 29 minThis week in Almost a Radio Show there’s P!nk in a band before she became famous… The Righteous Brothers do one of the greatest covers of all time… Romeo’s Tune is the…
- Almost a Radio Show - Mythomania! · 28 minThis week in the Almost a Radio Show podcast there are whack facts, musings, a dud invention, a Darwin Award and a suggestion that Donald Trump may be a mythomaniac plus music…
- Almost a Radio Show - Fygophobia! · 29 minBefore he was famous is Guess Who?! Well, Guess Who was a later band… Van Halen covers The Kinks… Smoking in the Boys Room is the One-Hit-Wonder… Percy Sledge pops up in Stone…
- Almost a Radio Show - Slipfast! · 28 minThis week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Huey Lewis in a band before he became News-worthy… there is a duet from Elton John and Kiki Dee… I Can Help is the one-hit-wonder from…
- Almost a Radio Show - Justing! · 29 minThis week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Bobby Darin in a band called the Rinky Dinks before he became famous… Kate Bush covers Elton John… the one-hit-wonder is Anita Ward…
- Almost a Radio Show - Exulansis! · 27 minThis week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Pat Benatar in a band before she became famous… John Farnham sings a cover from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid… Hedgehopper’s…
- Almost a Radio Show - Trumspringer! · 29 minTrumspringer! This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has trivia, whack facts, a double-doozy Darwin Award and the invention is eyeglasses for chickens. Plus there’s Denny…
- Almost a Radio Show - Idlewild! · 28 minThis week’s Almost a Radio Show has Frida from ABBA before she found fame in ABBA… Tones and I doing a fabulous cover of Men At Work’s iconic Down Under… the one-hit-wonder is…
