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  • Almost a Radio Show - Lilo!
    2026/05/02

    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.

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    29 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Vellichor!
    2026/04/25

    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.

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    28 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Lickspittle!
    2026/04/18

    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.

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    29 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Borborygmus!
    2026/04/11

    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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    30 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Verjuice!
    2026/04/04

    Trivia, whack facts, dud inventions, a Darwin Award and a song that has been covered 212 times – Ralph McTell’s Streets of London… Doug Parkinson formed a band that had Tommy Emmanuel on guitar… Daddy Cool is the one-hit-wonder and Diana Ross and The Supremes do the Beatles cover.

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    29 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Cingulomania!
    2026/03/28

    Cingulomania is a strong desire to hold someone in your arms… 10CC’s Graham Gouldman in his first band… multiple Darwin Awards in the one moment of idiocy… Leo Sayer’s show must go on… Where Do You Go to My Lovely is the one-hit-wonder… plus whack facts, dud inventions and a Beatles cover.

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    29 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Clinomania!
    2026/03/21

    Do you know anyone who is addicted to bed? Do you know which female artist was responsible for giving Mick Jagger his ‘moves’? Do you know how ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law, as well as the step-grandfather of his ex-wife? Do you know Greg Almann’s first band? Do you remember great Aussie rocker Jeff St John? As always there are whack facts, musings, a Darwin Award, a couple of dud inventions plus an amazing interpretation of a Beatles song.

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    28 分
  • Almost a Radio Show - Penultimatum!
    2026/03/14

    Penultimate means second to last and a penultimatum is almost the final offer. It is like a bluff. Donald (TACO) Trump is good at it… “Your 10% tariff is now 67%. And that’s final! Um… what about 20%? That’s final. No??? Would you like fries with that?” We’ve got Roger Daltry in his first band…another idiot gets a Darwin Award… The Rolling Stones Time Is on My Side is a cover… Alanah Miles has a one-hit-wonder… there is a song that was a hit in 1945, 1956, 1963 and today! There is a surprise Beatles cover… plus musings, whack facts and another dud invention.

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    29 分