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The Goodies
- Narrated by: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- Length: 1 hr
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Humour & Satire
Non-member price: $9.10
Publisher's Summary
The original comedy legends are back, exclusively to Audible!
The Goodies, aka Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie, are one of comedy’s most influential and treasured groups. After 50 years, they’ve reunited for new audio adventures. Expect their trademark surreal humour, and some very, very special guests....
This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download this Pilot episode to your Library now.
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- Adelaide Swinhoe
- 22-05-2020
EPIC
no one beats the goodies. these guys are EVERYTHING. I cannot get enough. more please.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-05-2020
Fantastic
A great nod to the original series, Lots of laugh out loud moments. Loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-04-2020
The Goodies absolutely Fabulous!
Just like old times with a modern interlay!
Thanks so much!
Love love love!
Brilliant!
RIP Tim!
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- Bennett
- 19-04-2020
Good to have them back
Yes, some of the jokes are old, but so is the cast. Great old fashioned fun
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-2019
Classic Goodies!
They've still got it! That old wit and style with modern day refences to pop culture. It's just like watching the old TV show. Joanna Lumley is perfect too! Absolutely loved it! Can't wait for more.
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- join tuhakaraina
- 18-12-2019
they still got it!
loved it!
They are still so funny. Even my teen thinks they're funny. Joanna Lumley was also great.
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- Solar Driftwood
- 10-10-2019
The World Needs The Goodies!
The central idea of this very welcome return for the legendary comedy trio is that Britain is in such a state that the country needs The Goodies to run it and, having listened to 'The Big Ben Theory', I can confirm that Britain does indeed very much need The Goodies (and unfortunately also that Britain is in one heck of a state!).
It is so marvellous that, nearly forty years on from the last of their television exploits, Audible have retrieved The Goodies and their trandem from deep storage in the bowels of the former BBC Television Centre, blown the cobwebs off Bill, Tim and Graeme, oiled the bike's chains and brought our heroes back in audio form.
The result is a mix of all that there was to love and laugh about in The Goodies with an added soupçon of one of the trio's other successes, the radio sketch show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - and it's all highly entertaining, well written, superbly performed... and as well as The Goodies, there are also the vocal talents of Joanna Lumley, Phil Pope, John Culshaw, Kate Harbour and Barnaby Eaton-Jones to enjoy. And enjoy you will...
Britain needs The Goodies. The world could do with them, too!
MORE!!!!
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- G Noble
- 11-10-2019
Welcome Back
When this production was first announced I was concerned it would not work on audio. So much of The Goodies was visual humour but I am delighted to have been proven wrong.
It's a crackling script and a joyous listen that acknowleges the time passed between the end of the TV series and this story and also mixes contemporary issues into the plot.
Loved it and I hope we get more for the 50th anniversary next year.
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- robert hill
- 11-10-2019
More please!
The boys are back and on great form. More please Audible, as soon as possible
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- Gene R. Obrien
- 10-10-2019
Brilliant!!!!!
It is such a treat to hear The Goodies together again!!!! This production is brilliantly written, directed and acted and had me 'dangerously' laughing in my car all the way to work and back today!!! That comes from a Yank!!! This is just what this world and time needs right now. A way to laugh at ourselves and laugh hysterically!!!
The Goodies. Always brilliant. Always funny. 40+ years on and they still have it!!!
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- Mrs. Alison Cross
- 14-10-2019
Well done Goodies
Loved a return of the Goodies on spankingly goodie form. How about some more please and ........ what did happen to that kitten?
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- T. M. Howsam
- 13-10-2019
Goody goody yum yum
Can’t believe it always loved the goodies as a kid and now I find this free audiobook only released 2 days ago
Can’t wait for the next instalment
Well done audible - Bill ,Tim and Graeme - absolutely fantastic
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- Kingy
- 11-10-2019
The Goodies save Britain, and about time
Whilst Tim, Graeme and Bill haven't been away entirely from radio (OK, Bill has been AWOL for a while, in a gilly suit in a forest) the Goodies have not been seen for over 30 years and now... they're back and nothing has changed, except the wonderful Dirk Maggs is now at the helm as director. The Goodies should have been as big as Python, and I say that as a big Python fan. It can't be easy to write sketches and skits but to write with the same creativity and lunacy and also have to have a narrative which links everything logically and chronologically takes genius. That's why I think Python's best work is at the cinema. The Holy Grail and Brian show real discipline and controlled talent. The Goodies did this brilliantly for 67 episodes but then faded away into the great entertainment ether.(Damn you, Bill Cotton) For some unforgivable reason the series has never been repeated, even on Dave! But now here they are and they are still brilliant. Bill and Graeme share writing credit but you can still identify Graeme's puns. He should have an OBE for services to comedy - without Graeme on 'Clue' and other quiz shows, we wouldn't have Tim Vine, Milton Jones, etc. Bill still writes funny songs and Tim still wears his union jack waistcoat but the comedy feels fresh, alive and marvelously groan-able. As with all the best puns you wonder why no one thought of it before. If you remember the Goodies, get this and relive your youth. If you're too young to remember, don't worry, it isn't your fault. Get this and turn your 'silly' monitor up and laugh out loud. Thank you Audible for bringing back a classic, and this time it's really worth it.
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- I. Richardson
- 13-10-2019
Goodness me
Well how easy was that. Tim Graham and Bill slipped back into there roles with Witt and ease
Who would gave been aware they had been away so long. The comedy is perfect for audible. The jokes are as bad as ever and the story is so up to date. Loved it. Hope there is more
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- Mrs. Tracy J. Gill
- 13-10-2019
Back to my childhood
Wonderful, have loved this return to my youth, liked The Goodies then and now I can renew that love again, more episodes please.
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- L. Gallagher
- 15-10-2019
Brilliant. Give the Nation more!
Brilliant. They have got to do more. The magic is still there. Just hope they do a Christmas special.
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