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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 volume includes: 'The String Robberies', 'The Moriarty Murder Mystery', 'The Curse of Frankenstein', 'The White Neddie Trade', 'Ten Snowballs That Shook the World', 'The Man Who Never Was', 'World War One', 'The Spon Plague', 'Tiddlywinks', 'The Evils of Bushey Spon' and 'The Great Statue Debate'.

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this bundle collection presents the episodes in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast. This volume includes: 'Emperor of the Universe', 'Wings over Dagenham', 'The Rent Collectors', 'Shifting Sands', 'The Moon Show', 'The Mysterious Punch-Up-the-Conker', 'Round the World in Eighty Days', 'Africa Ship Canal', 'Ill Met by Goonlight', 'The Missing Boa Constrictor', 'The Histories of Pliny the Elder' and more.

In more than 500 episodes of Parkinson between 1971 and 1982, Michael Parkinson interviewed some of the greatest show-business talents.In Parkinson's interview with The Goons, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe remember their "love/hate; let's get one over the BBC" relationship. Spike Milligan...

Twelve classic episodes of The Goon Show, plus the complete series of The Omar Khayyam Show, The Army Show, The Naughty Navy Show and a wealth of bonus material.

From the pen of comic genius Spike Milligan, here are 62 hilarious gems read by Spike himself, including "Ying-Tong-Iddle-I-Po", "This Is a Stick Up", and "Fleas, Knees, and Hidden Elephants". 1997 2002 BBC Audiobooks...

Comic icon Spike Milligan recollects highlights from his stellar career. The comic genius of Spike Milligan changed the face of radio comedy through 'The Goon Show'. Here Milligan chooses and introduces classic clips from his astonishing career: readings from his books 'Puckoon' and 'Adolf...

Here are all six episodes from this one-off 1987 radio comedy series, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan, Chris Langham, John Antrobus, and a jazz quartet. Episodes include "The Incredible Case of the Vanishing Flying Scotsman", "Jonah and the Whale", "From Rags to More Rags", "That 'Cake' Elusive Pimpernel", and "The Incurables".

Derek Jones meets celebrities with a love of wildlife in these 37 episodes from the classic nature-themed interview show Between 1970 and 1980, broadcaster Derek Jones invited a host of famous names to chat about their enthusiasm for nature and their encounters with animals. Delving into the BBC...

Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, The Goon Show was recreated at the Playhouse Theatre in London for one extra-special celebratory night, with Andrew Secombe (standing in for his father Harry), Jon Glover (as Spike Milligan) and Jeffrey Holland (as Peter Sellers). Together, the...

From the very start of the recording era, the radio, the 78 and LPs have produced an unforgettable list of Classic Children’s Favourites. Here, on this unique audio compilation, are many of the finest, performed by great stars of the past. Danny Kaye presents "Tubby the Tuba" and others; Spike Jones sings "Old Macdonald Had a Farm", Harold Fraser-Simpson is "At Buckingham Palace" (with Christopher Robin). There is "The Runaway Train", "The Owl and the Pussycat", and many more.

From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.

This work provides a concise synthesis of the key insights and analysis from Made to Stick. It is an independent summary, not the original book, and has no affiliation with or endorsement from the original publication. Created for those who want a clear, thought-provoking overview, it distills the central themes and ideas while preserving the depth and relevance of the work.

Spike Jones and his City Slickers enjoyed perhaps their finest hour in March 1948, when they performed in Washington, DC at the request of President Harry Truman. They do a slam-bang up job on “I’m Just Wild About Harry” on the opening show in this volume, in anticipation of their visit. Getting The Spike Jones Show on the air took a lot of advance planning from week to week, with schedule and location dictated by the band’s lucrative road show and its cross-country tours of one-night stands.

Many of the episodes on this volume were broadcast from Hollywood, but the program (which finally became The Spike Jones Show when it moved to a Sunday evening time slot in January 1949) traveled extensively in its last season—New Orleans, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Richmond, Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Boston, Chicago, Des Moines, and San Francisco.

At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the LBJ White...

The best comedy-novelty band of all time was at its peak when The Spike Jones Show (officially The Spotlight Revue, better known as The Coke Show) debuted on CBS, Friday, October 3, 1947. The show premiered in San Francisco where Spike and his City Slickers’ wacky Musical Depreciation Revue was holding forth at the Curran Theatre. The guest list here includes musical humorist Victor Borge (savaging “Clair de Lune” on the premiere), Tex Williams (doing his signature “Smoke Smoke Smoke”), Mel Torme and Frankie Laine.

This volume of The Spike Jones Show features episodes emanating from Las Vegas, Pueblo, Colorado, and Calipatria, California—where Spike grew up and started his first band—but most of the programs here were broadcast from Hollywood. The guest list reflects the change in locale. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Peter Lorre (vocalizing “My Old Flame” with impressionist Paul Frees in tow), Don Ameche (doing “Quartet from Rigor Mortis”), Dinah Shore and Fred Astaire (performing “Cheek to Cheek”), Jerry Colonna, and Basil Rathbone are among those heard here.

This work provides a concise synthesis of the key insights and analysis from Crucial Conversations. It is an independent summary, not the original book, and has no affiliation with or endorsement from the original publication. Created for those who want a clear, thought-provoking overview, it distills the central themes and ideas while preserving the depth and relevance of the work.

This work provides a concise synthesis of the key insights and analysis from How to Win Friends and Influence People. It is an independent summary, not the original book, and has no affiliation with or endorsement from the original publication. Created for those who want a clear, thought-provoking overview, it distills the central themes and ideas while preserving the depth and relevance of the work.