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The Goon Show Compendium Volume Three: Series 6, Part 1

bySpike Milligan, Harry Secombe (Read by), Peter Sellers (Read by)

Episodes from the classic BBC radio comedy series

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Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast.

This third volume includes: 'The Man Who Won the War', 'The Secret Escritoire', 'The Lost Emperor', 'Napoleon's Piano', 'The Case of the Missing CD Plates', 'Rommel's Treasure', 'Shangri La Again!', 'The International Christmas Pudding', 'The Pevensey Bay Disaster', 'The Sale of Manhattan', 'The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu Manchu', 'The Lost Year' and 'The Greenslade Story'.

Also featured are some rare archive bonus items, including Peter Sellers in The Listening Room playing Spike Milligan's classic nonsense song 'I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas'. Two illustrated booklets tell the story of the show's development with reference to original archive paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves.

Remastered using new material and the latest technology to give the best possible sound quality, these recordings are sure to appeal to all collectors of The Goon Show.

The Goons is a classic comedy which reflects the broadcast standards, language and attitudes of its time.

©2012 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2012 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About Spike Milligan

A legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Over the course of his astonishing career, he wrote over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show, and went on to become one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002.
Details
  • Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
  • ISBN: 9781408417065
  • Length: 405 minutes
  • Price: £10.00