What a great opportunity to introduce Spike Milligan's humour to a new generation - on @itvx.com

THE MAN WHO TRIED TO DESTROY LONDON'S MONUMENTS With @rogerthesaurus.bsky.social pod.link/1569929507 Join us for a couple of rounds of "Is It Spike Or Is It Peter?" as we discuss the earliest Goon Show covered on GP so far! Also: Goon panto and the intriguing story of Fred Flange!

GOON POD Q&A pod.link/1569929507 This week Tyler tackles listeners' questions! What if Spike had written for Tony Hancock? Why did Barry Cryer complain about the Goons? Was Minnie Bannister inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein? ..And much much more! With @adamsleslie.bsky.social

A reminder. The Goon Show Preservation Society will be represented at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House on Saturday 11th October. There will be a film screening, and you can come and talk to us at our stall.

What you missed at the GSPS annual meeting

NED: A house! BLOODNOK: It's a mirage. NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage. BLOODNOK: I told you. ECCLES: AHHHHH! FX: CRASH OF BODY BLOODNOK: What happened? ECCLES: I was upstairs. (Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)

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THE NADGER PLAGUE With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social pod.link/1569929507 Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?

A quick reminder, the Goon Show Preservation Society's annual meeting is this Saturday in Finchley, near to the home of the East Finchley boy hero Bluebottle. Come along...

Calling Bluebottle! #TheGoonsShowPreservationSociety present an exclusive screening at our #TPTV Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October. ⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or online buff.ly/lBLZv9b

Come along and see us next week. It'll be fun

There are several Peter Sellers themed programmes on Radio 4 Extra next week. I've updated my list here: goonshow.org/2025/08/28/s...

What the BBC are broadcasting around the Peter Sellers centenary on 8th September

The new edition of @thegsps.bsky.social newsletter is on its way to members. It's not just a Peter Sellers Centenary Special, there's lots more in there too. See what you're missing out on if you're not a member...

The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social will be at the ‪@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Festival of Film & TV Roadshow in Hebden Bridge on 13th October. Have a good day out and come say hello to us, all in one. goonshow.org/2025/08/13/t...

New! THE FIREBALL OF MILTON STREET With Jeffers from @podcatflappo.bsky.social pod.link/1569929507 This week we discuss the end of the world, crispy pre-war bacon, a 200-foot ladder, a multi-storey bungalow and Secombe on a mouse hunt! (picture inspired by a cast doodle on Goon Show script!)

One for South Island New Zealand folks. News of another Goon Show performance on stage.

NEW! Gavin Sutherland on GOON SHOW MUSIC pod.link/1569929507 This week conductor & arranger @gavinsutherland.bsky.social joins the pod to chat about favourite music from the Goon Show as well as memories of Angela Morley & musicians who worked on the series - plus we chat old telly themes & idents!

A new thrill! I’ve done the first 19 boxes of the @goonshow.org archive, and by thunder, box 18 will make your eyes pop out. A real highlight. And there’s more, my friends, where THAT came from! borthcat.york.ac.uk/gsps-box-18

Dirk Maggs and Ted Kendall are this week's guests on Goon Pod, gassing about Goons! pod.link/1569929507

New on the @thegsps.bsky.social website: As we approach would have been Peter Sellers' 100th birthday, Mark Cousins previews next month's Sellers Season at the British Film Institute.

One for Goon Show history fans, a radio drama about Angela Morley being broadcast on Friday.

FOLKS! We have SEVEN DAYS to raise £700 as part of our crowdfunder, and then we unlock a further £3,000 from an external donor! All yer info here, link in the description youtu.be/XwVw9u7tfm8

Advance Notice – The GSPS Annual Meeting – 13th September wp.me/pe48YE-39E @thegsps.bsky.social

The Galton and Simpson Archive talk at the University of York’s Festival of Ideas, which I've been banging on about on the GSPS website, has now been uploaded to YouTube. Sit back and enjoy... goonshow.org/2025/06/25/w...

@thegsps.bsky.social members, don't miss this week's episode of @goonpod.bsky.social Pod. It [email protected] , and our 'Grand Poobah' @richardausher.bsky.social

New! THE GALTON & SIMPSON ARCHIVE pod.link/1569929507 With the recent discovery of Goon Show sketches written by Galton & Simpson and a current campaign to secure their archive for the nation - yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands... - Goon Pod welcomes Gary Brannan & Richard Usher!