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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 jo...

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...

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 en...

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.

This week's podcast is about two well-known people who started as colleagues and became friends, Noeline Brown and Kev Golsby... and one venture that almost went very pear-shaped.

Good friends you make on your life journey say a lot about the person you are and they, in turn, contribute to the fabric of your character. This podcast is mainly about a friend I have had for 58 years and the chapter is titled, The Day I Met ...

This podcast tip for writing a memoir chapter is to choose one day in the year that has had an impact on you. It could be Christmas, Valentine's Day, Australia Day or a birthday. My chapter is titled The Day They Call Anzac.

Memoirs should reflect life and, as such, there can be recounting of events that were sad or traumatic. This week’s podcast - The Day My Father Died.