The Goon Show: Volume 1: Moriarty, Where Are You?

Spike Milligan · Larry Stephens

Dec 2004 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers

About this audiobook

Goon but not forgotten! Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. GO ON - in search of The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea. The trail is still warm (we hate cold batter pudding). Or join Brutus Moriartus and Caractacus Seagoon in ancient Roman epic The Histories of Pliny the Elder (they'll fight up hill and down Mrs Dale). Take tea with Bluebottle on The Jet Propelled Guided NAAFI and go lamp-post hunting in The Evils of Bushey Spon. Yes folks, it's those highly esteemed wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. What's the Tiber? Half past niber. When in Rome...

About the author

Spike Milligan (Author)
Spike Milligan was perhaps best known as one of the Goons. He went on to become one of Britain's foremost comic writers and performers. His bestselling titles include Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Puckoon and Where have all the Bullets Gone? He died in 2002.

Larry Stephens (Author)
Larry Stephens was a scriptwriter who wrote for several popular comedy shows in the 1950s, including The Tony Hancock Show and The Army Game. He is probably best known as co-writer of many Goon Show episodes, along with Spike Milligan. He died in 1959.

Spike Milligan (Author)
Born in India in April 1918, Terence Alan ‘Spike’ Milligan was a comedy writer and performer who created The Goon Show which ran from 1951 to 1960. Milligan soon established his own fresh style of comedy. A poet and a campaigning humanitarian, Milligan was universally acclaimed for his published war memoirs. Amongst his radio series were The Omar Khayam Show and The Milligan Papers as well as his television series such as A Show Called Fred, The Idiot’sWeekly Price 2d and later the Q series from Q5 to Q9. He died in February 2002.