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Ian

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.

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  • 25 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 28 min
  • English
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  • May 9 · 29 min

    Almost a Radio Show - Kickdrop!

    Almost a Radio Show’s word of the week is kickdrop, a recently invented word to describe that moment you jolt awake from a vivid dream and have to recalibrate to the real world. There’s a song from Artie Garr before he owned up to being Art Garfunkel… plus Bette Midler, Bryan Ferry and Francesco Paolo LoVecchio – who is better known as Frankie Laine. Oh! Leo Sayer has a cover of The Beatles’ I Am the Walrus. And, a always there are whack facts, a dud invention and a Darwin Award.

  • May 2 · 28 min

    Almost a Radio Show - Lilo!

    This week’s special word is lilo – not the blow-up bed but it’s a recently invented word to describe a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if you’d seen each other last week. There’s some terrific music from covers and a one hit wonder, another Darwin Award, whack facts and great invention that became an environmental disaster.

  • April 25 · 28 min

    Almost a Radio Show - Vellichor!

    Who did the best Woodstock – Joni Mitchell or Crosby Stills Nash & Young? Who did The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia? Which rock guitarist did Nessun Dorma? Who did a great cover of The Beatles’ Lady Madonna? Plus whack facts, a Darwin Award and fun banter.

  • April 18 · 28 min

    Almost a Radio Show - Lickspittle!

    There’s Ian Dury in his first band… Somethin’ Stupid is the cover… Concrete and Clay is the one-hit-wonder… There’s The Band with The Weight and Aretha Franklin does The Beatles cover… plus the Darwin Award, whack facts and a dud invention called the Moustache Shield to stop food and drink invading a hairy top lip.

  • April 11 · 29 min

    Almost a Radio Show - Borborygmus!

    Borborygmus is the medical term for tummy rumbles… There’s Chris Isaak in his first band… a cover that beats the original – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood… There’s Hans Poulsen with a one-hit-wonder… Chicago with the meaning of 25 or 6 to 4… the Beatles cover is Paperback Writer… plus an invention, whack facts and a Darwin Award to an idiot who improved our collective gene pool by removing himself from it.

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