Goon Show, The - Volume 9 - What Time Is It, Eccles?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Under Two Floorboards
The Sinking of Westminster Pier
The Yehti
The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker

Goon but not forgotten. From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio.

GO ON - from a watery Westminster Pier to the far flung Foreign Legion, from Yehti ridden Yorkshire moors to a leather omnibus with a phantom conker-punch - the weird, wide and wonderful world of Goonery knows no bounds.

So savour another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe once more redefine the limits of radio comedy.

Here today - Goon tomorrow.


Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Various
Narrator: Full Cast Performance
ISBN: 0563389729
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Round the Horne - Volume 16

Monday, May 12th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Round the Horne - Volume 16

Series One: Episode 5 (4 April 1965)
Series One: Episode 10 (9 May 1965)
Series One: Episode 12 (23 May 1965)
Series Two: Episode 12 (29 May 1966)

How lovely it is to once again vada the dolly old eel of Round the Home, the radio comedy series which ventured where few had gone before in the late 1960s. For four series, suave and unruffled host Kenneth Home battled manfully with a marauding parade of characters, from enterprising chorus boys Julian & Sandy and warbling songsmith Rambling Syd Rumpo to booming Daphne Whitethigh and breathless thespians Charles & Fiona.

In this latest collection of episodes, we listen in to an interview at the BBC personnel department. Kenneth Home, master spy, has serious trouble when the evil Ginsberg causes people to assume the characters of animals, Julian & Sandy suggest something decadent for the garden, and, in a wartime drama, Fiona finds something lacking in her marriage to Charles.

Written By
Barry Took and Marty Feldman

First Broadcast
The Light Programme
7 March 1965

Number of Series
Four: March -June 1965 (16 episodes)
March -June 1966 (13 episodes)
February-June 1967 (20 episodes)
February -June 1968 (16 episodes)

Christmas specials:
25 December 1966
24 December 1967

Last Broadcast
BBC Radio 2
9 June 1968


Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Barry Took and Marty Feldman
Narrator: Full Cast Performance
ISBN: 0563524367
Download Price: $18.99

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