Hiraeth is a curious Welsh word to kick-start this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast… there is a song called My Jellybean… another deserving winner of a Darwin Award… a cover of a 300-year-old song… Lucky Starr with his biggest hit… Starbuck does the one-hit-wonder… Canadian Sarah McLachlan has a sweet performance of Blackbird off the Beatles White Album and there are the usual life hacks, whack facts, banter and fun…

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by a fear of happiness – yes, there is such a phobia… There’s Annie Lennox in a band before the Eurhythmics… Another winner of the coveted Darwin Award who improved our gene pool by removing himself from it… Limp Bizkit covers The Who… Barry Crocker has a one-hit-wonder… there’s the late but wonderful Billy Thorpe and Blood Sweat & Tears cover The Beatles plus whack facts, musing and a dud invention…

In Yiddish, would you rather be a mensch or a schmuck? Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Roy Orbison in his first band, The Wink Westerners… Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman… Electric Avenue is the one-hit-wonder… we dig up the terrific English-Aussie rocker, Jon English… Stevie Wonder works it out with a Beatles cover… Hair in a Can is the failed invention and a Canadian lawyer improves our collective gene pool by removing himself from it to take out the Darwin Award… and, as usual, there are musing, banter, trivia and deep meaning of life thoughts like, does a drinking straw have one hole or two?

Clever but unscrupulous – that’s a ‘snollygoster’… Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Mama Cass in a band before she became famous… Eva Cassidy covering a Fleetwood Mac song… Nicolette Larson with a Lotta Love for the one-hit-wonder… Leonard Cohen with a lotta love for his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ilhen… Marmalade spreads out for the Beatles cover and we have a winner of the Darwin Awards who improved the world’s gene pool by removing himself from it…

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by deipnosophists. Where would we be without them?! There is Olivia Newton John in a band before she became famous… but, if you are in Sweden you can’t dance to it in public without a permit… Soft Cell does the cover song… Blind Melon has the one-hit-wonder… Canadian blind guitarist, Jeff Healey does a Beatles cover backed by George Harrison… and there are whack-facts and great Aussie inventions!

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by dunderheads and other old-time fools. Eric Carmen started out in a band called The Raspberries. How many paper straws can you stick and hold in a beard? (Hint: More than 100, less than 1000). There is a surprise cover by The Gipsy Kings… the Nashville Teens provide the one-hit-wonder… there are a couple of turtles happy together and Matchbox 20 covers a Beatles song live in Sydney…

In this Almost a Radio Show, the recent Russian fad of defenestration... Carole King is in a band before becoming a solo sensation... Sting covers Elton John... Jonathan Edwards has his one-hit-wonder... We remember the late George Michael... Thomas Edison performs Mary Had a Little Lamb... Dear Prudence gets a post-punk goth-rock twist plus trivia, fun facts, life hacks and chat.

In this Almost a Radio Show we discover that Dave is a pluviophile... Debbie Harry is in a band before Blondie... George Michael performs a sensational cover... The Lemon Pipers have a one-hit-wonder from 1968... We remember Ace Frehley from KISS... There is (arguably) the top ten inventions of all time... There's trivia, life hacks and The Bee Gees covering a Beatles song.