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Author: Jimmy Grafton Publisher: Robson Books Limited ISBN: 9780860518365 Category : Goon Show (Radio program) Languages : en Pages : 0
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The 'Goon Show Companion' is the ultimate Goon book that no Goonatic should be without. In addition to tracing the history and development of the famous British comic radio show from its beginnings in 1951, it contains a meticulous Goonography, listing every Goon Show with its original transmission date, correct title, announced title (if this was different), and details if of writers, cast and producers. Compiled by Roger Wilmut and with a special memoir by the late Jimmy Grafton, in whose pub the first programs were hatched. 'The Goon Show Companion' is a must for all true fans.
Author: Jimmy Grafton Publisher: Robson Books Limited ISBN: 9780860518365 Category : Goon Show (Radio program) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The 'Goon Show Companion' is the ultimate Goon book that no Goonatic should be without. In addition to tracing the history and development of the famous British comic radio show from its beginnings in 1951, it contains a meticulous Goonography, listing every Goon Show with its original transmission date, correct title, announced title (if this was different), and details if of writers, cast and producers. Compiled by Roger Wilmut and with a special memoir by the late Jimmy Grafton, in whose pub the first programs were hatched. 'The Goon Show Companion' is a must for all true fans.
Author: Norma Farnes Publisher: Virgin Publishing ISBN: 9780753505298 Category : Goon Show. (Radio Program) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, along with a select handful of friends, delve into their personal memorabilia and their memories to piece together the history of the Goons, under the guidance of Spike's long-suffering manager, Norma Farnes.
Author: Rick Cousins Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004310703 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 224
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“It’s all rather confusing, really” was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program The Goon Show. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity and uncertainty. In The Goon Show’s universe, time and space expand and contract seemingly at will and without notice. The worldview featured in The Goon Show looked both backward and forward: backward, in the sense that it paralleled strategies used by schoolchildren to understand time and space; forward, in the ways it anticipated and prefigured a number of key features of postmodern thought. Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award 2017 of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
Author: Spike Milligan Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0670920789 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 322
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Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.
Author: Robert Lacey Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0525573372 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 338
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Can’t get enough of The Crown? In this must-have exploration of the history behind seasons 2 and 3 of Peter Morgan’s Emmy-winning Netflix drama, the show’s historical consultant answers all your questions alongside beautifully reproduced archival photographs. In this eye-opening companion to seasons 2 and 3 of Netflix’s acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political, and personal moments and their effects—not only on the royal family but also on the world around them. From the Suez Crisis and the U.S.–Soviet space race to the legacy of the Duke of Windsor’s collaboration with Hitler, along with the rumored issues with the royal marriage, the book provides a thought-provoking insight into the historic decades that the show explores, revealing the truth behind the on-screen drama. Fascinating and fast-paced, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of the Queen. The Crown is now available to watch on Netflix. The Crown is produced by Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.
Author: Pauline Scudamore Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752495011 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 299
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The biography of Spike Milligan, one of the most gifted, creative individuals of our time, and remembered as a true comic genius. However, many people are unaware that he battled throughout his adult life against anxiety and depression, neither of which he was able to conquer.
Author: Roger Rawlings Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438467354 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 288
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Ripping England! investigates a fertile moment for British satire—the period between 1947 and 1953, which produced the films Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Lavender Hill Mob, as well as the seminal radio program The Goon Show. Against the postwar background of fading empire, universal rationing, and the implementation of a welfare state, these satires laid the foundation for a new British cultural identity later fleshed out by the Angry Young Men, the Movement poets, the Social Realists, and those involved in the satire boom of the 1960s, which lives on even to this day. The peculiarity of these satires and the British identity they shaped is better understood when seen in relief against postwar cinematic cultures of Italy, France, and the United States. Roger Rawlings places postwar British film in the context of contemporaneous European national film movements and contrasts it with Hollywood's comedies and satires of the same period. British satires of the late forties and early fifties held up a mirror to a nation that was in the throes of change, moving from a colonial empire to an inward-turning island culture. Ripping England! looks at the all too often neglected miracle of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
Author: Norma Farnes Publisher: Virgin Publishing ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 200
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A collection of scripts, sketches, Spike Milligan's personal memorabilia and photographs that make up the history of The Goons. It also includes contributions from Harry Secombe and Eric Sykes. It forms the definitive story of Eccles, Bluebottle, Neddy, Grytpype-Thynne et al.
Author: Jimmy Grafton
Author: Jimmy Grafton
Author: Norma Farnes
Author: Spike Milligan
Author: Rick Cousins
Author: Spike Milligan
Author: Robert Lacey
Author: Pauline Scudamore
Author: Roger Rawlings
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Author: Norma Farnes