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MSing About
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
100 episodes
Almost a Radio Show - Petrichor!
This week's podcast is brought to you by the lovely smell of rain on dust, petrichor. There’s a stack of goodies including a cryptic pregnancy, jobs celebrities had before they became celebrities, a famous muso with a song before he found fame,...
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Almost a Radio Show - Quafftide!
Quafftide – it is a time of day, week, month or year that drinkers enjoy… there’s an Australian inland city that has a beach, that saw the first ever Chiko Roll and gave birth to The Eurythmics… John Farnham belts out a cover… there’s som...
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Almost a Radio Show - Tittynopes!
Just what can jentacular tittynopes be? There’s another accidental invention, fun factoids and a pot pourri of performers in Ray Charles, Herman’s Hermits, Gary Shearston, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boys II Men and the Starland Vocal Band with a delightfu...
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Almost a Radio Show - Pot-Valiant!
Pot-Valiant is a quaint term for alcohol inspired bravado or stupidity… David Bowie sings when he was still known as Davy Jones… Zager & Evans sing the only song they are known for as Zager & Evans… It’s a mad world for Gary Jules and a...
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Almost a Radio Show - Winklepickers!
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 ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Serendipity!
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 on...
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Almost a Radio Show - Euphoric Phlegm!
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 Ov...
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Almost a Radio Show - An Ultracrepidarian!
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,...
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Almost a Radio Show - Bumfiddling!
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 w...
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Almost a Radio Show - The Tidsoptimist!
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 ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Ocker Shocker!
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 b...
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Almost a Radio Show - Prickmedainty!
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 Roll...
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Almost a Radio Show - Scurryfunging!
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...
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27:30
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Almost a Radio Show - Show Us Your Tittles!
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 w...
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Almost a Radio Show - Meet the Clatterfarts!
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 a...
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Almost a Radio Show Trailer
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 fact...
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Uncle Tadpole and Other Treasures
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.
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Black Bushrangers
Still MSing About with Australian history and this week, Black Bushrangers from 1788 to 1901 – six blokes and a lady!
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12:11
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Frontier Wars
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.
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12:32
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Nosey Bob the Hangman
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 jo...
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Oz Day or Invasion Day?
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, Barangaro...
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Can I Use the N-Word?
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.
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Sketch Comedy!
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…
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