How young Ned Seagoon journeys by steam packet to the Americas to find the Lost Gold Mine and how, after... more

One of the few actors who could genuinely command respect and admiration from Peter Sellers, Irene Handl is mainly remembered... more

Commissioner Dreyfus had for years wanted to see his infuriating underling Inspector Jacques Clouseau dead and buried and for a... more

When Adam Faith and chums decide to make a fake Loch Ness monster they set off a chain of events... more

Issued on BBC LP in 1979, The Rent Collectors is still often overlooked which is a bit unfair. Although given... more

This week a slight departure as we go back forty years to the alternative comedy landscape of the 1980s and... more

This week Tyler talks to Robert Sellers, author of a new book detailing the entire history of the Pink Panther/Inspector... more

This week we fire up a Wurlitzer and crack open an oyster as we celebrate one of the aspects of... more

We revisit some beloved children's television series from the seventies and eighties this week as Chris Diamond returns to talk... more

"Ah, here is is Christmas Eve and still no offers of pantomime!"One of the best-known Goon Shows ever, Dishonoured -... more

This week we’re turning our attention to Peter Sellers’penultimate film (if we disregard those pesky ‘flogging a dead Panther’ posthumous... more

Can you believe that for half a century student bars the length and breadth of the land have resounded to... more

"Do you want a taste of the lash?""No thanks, I've just had some cocoa."In 1974 the BBC issued the first... more

According to Peter Sellers: “It all started because Spike Milligan and I once said we wanted to experiment in visual... more

A darkly comic satire about an increasingly deranged leader of a Western power, tensions with Russia and the threat of... more

In 2024 we asked Goon Pod listeners to nominate their all-time favourite British comedy film. It didn't have to have... more

A special Christmas bonus edition! As part of Goon Pod Film Club - www.patreon.com/GoonPod - every month Tyler and a... more

The man behind the Goon Show Compendiums, audio engineer extraordinaire Ted Kendall returns to answer your questions in this Christmas... more

“For a shortened version of this programme, please read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and you won’t find much resemblance.”   On... more

Who were the key figures in getting the Goon Show to radio? Which people were pivotal to the Goons' success?... more

On 4th December 1994 Jonathan Ross hosted the British Comedy Awards in front of an invited audience of the great... more

A rare straight acting role for Peter Sellers in 1960, Never Let Go starred Richard Todd as a man for... more

In 1979 Peter Sellers released Sellers Market, an LP of all new material which was recorded mostly in Paris and included... more

Released 69 years ago this week, The Cockleshell Heroes was a heavily fictionalised account of the real-life WW2 Operation Frankton,... more

"In the little Essex hamlet of Great Bardfield, a tiger with influenza is mounting guard over a mysterious white box.... more

Everyone at Goon Pod Towers is very excited this week as this is the first time we've ever covered a... more

In 1975 David Dimbleby conducted an interview on television with Spike Milligan, and as the Fates would have it Spike... more

Young Ned Seagoon, walking the streets of London during a particularly thick 'pea-souper,' accidentally knocks over a Miss Selina Clutch.... more

"There once was a beautiful moon, "It was up in the sky, chum, "When he said “What’s the time?” "They replied ‘What?’... more

Take three Pythons, a Goon, the father of modern satire, some Mel Brooks regulars, a Young One, a rock legend,... more