The Goon Show
- Radio sitcom / sketch show
- BBC Home Service
- 1951 - 1960
- 231 episodes (10 series)
Highly surreal radio adventures that helped take British comedy into a new age. Starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. Also features Michael Bentine.
- Series 6, Episode 21 repeated Tuesday at 7:30am on Radio 4 Extra
Press clippings Page 2
Goons producer marks show's 60th anniversary
It's 60 years since BBC listeners first discovered The Goons. None of the stars are still alive but producer Charles Chilton can still recall the pleasure and perils of putting Spike Milligan's extraordinary creation on air.
Vincent Dowd, BBC News, 15th August 2011The Goon Show must go on - 60 years since its debut
Prince Charles, Goon fan and patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society, to give message to mark anniversary.
Jonathan Sale, The Guardian, 27th May 2011Between ourselves, I always thought the Goons got a long way with funny voices, strange noises and the comic potential of the term "batter pudding". But it cannot be denied that Sellers, Milligan and Secombe changed the genre with their comic inventiveness, surrealism and sheer cheek: the BBC once banned a scene that had the effrontery to portray the House of Commons dozing gently.
Roland White, The Times, 12th April 2009Angela Morley: Composer and arranger
Angela Morley was a versatile musician, a composer, arranger and conductor, who began her professional life as Wally Stott and became nationally known in the 1950s as a stalwart of The Goon Show before undergoing a sex-change.
The Times, 20th January 2009