Show #1 Cheese, Nursery Rhymes and other nice things.

Improvised Radio Device is the experimental radio blog - it's a wacky take on radio where there are no DJ's, no broadcasting, no play-lists and no genres . . . just random (carefully selected, sometimes genius, mostly bizarre) music videos and weird ramblings from your resident DJ oops forgot about the no DJ bit, umm . . . entertainer/host/writer/blogger.

Scroll >> Play video >> Read >> Rinse and Repeat . . . .

The music is inspired by various video postings by random people on random social networking sites, and of course some of it is just personal choice. Part of the plan here is to NEVER play the same song twice, I think we'll manage that easily. 


So, without further ado.









Swiss cheese is a generic name in North America for several related varieties of cheese which resemble the Swiss Emmental. Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks of the cheese are riddled with holes known as “eyes.” Swiss cheese has a piquant, but not very sharp, taste. Swiss cheese without eyes is known as “blind.”

About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that our universe is accelerating apart at ever-increasing speeds, stretching space and time itself like melted cheese. The force that's pushing the universe apart is still a mystery, which is precisely why it was dubbed "dark energy."





A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbours where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land. Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water, for commercial demand, and for shelter from wind and waves. Ports with deeper water are rarer, but can handle larger, more economical ships. Since ports throughout history handled every kind of traffic, support and storage facilities vary widely, may extend for miles, and dominate the local economy. Some ports have an important, perhaps exclusively military role.




The Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), often simply called rubber tree, is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae and the most economically important member of the genus Hevea. It is of major economic importance because its sap-like extract (known as latex) can be collected and is the primary source of natural rubber.

I bet you didn't know that!


Ahem . . . .




‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ (also sung as The Noble Duke of York) is an English children's nursery rhyme, often performed as an action song. The Duke of the title has been argued to be a number of the holders of that office, particularly Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827) and its lyrics have become proverbial for futile action. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 742.

The most common modern version is:

Oh, The grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
And he marched them down again.

And when they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only half-way up,
They were neither up nor down.

Frequently, the audience is asked to "act out" the rhyme by standing up, sitting down, and standing halfway up at the appropriate points in the verse. Sometimes the audience may be asked not to say various words in the poem, for example; they may be asked not to say 'up' and 'down'. The idea is to catch out the participants.





It's coming up to the end of the first show . . . . Hope you've enjoyed the music so far. Please comment for future episodes if you have any requests and we'll play them in the last two slots . . . the more bizarre and unheard of the better!







It's the end of the show.

Adios.