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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...

Goon but not forgotten. From 1951 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. Join Seagoon as he attempts to save Britain from the dreaded Lurgi (oh, yackaboo!) in Lurgi Strikes Britain; accompany him on safari as he searches for the...

Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves with four broadcasts of national comic import. 1. “How To Eat Food” In order to help explain one of our most fundamental acts as human beings, Jeremy picks up the topic of food with the chopsticks of enquiry and then drops it on his trousers of former...

Series 4 of Lynne Truss's popular BBC Radio comedy thriller. It is 1957, and WWII bomb disposal hero Captain 'mad Hoagy' Hoagland, now fallen on hard times, appears at Brighton Police Station to deliver two boxes. One contains a silver truncheon; an award for valour for Sergeant Brunswick. The...

Creator of 'The Thick of It' & 'I'm Alan Partridge', Armando Iannucci hosts the complete 4th series of his award-winning show. Series guests include Phill Jupitus, David Mitchell, Dave Gorman, Dara O'Briain, Miranda Hart and Chris Addison ('In The Loop'). Armando Iannucci and his guests pull...

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the highly esteemed Goon Show! From 1951 to 1960, the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. Go on, break out with Childe Harolde (37 years old and still in his pram) in The Childe Harolde Rewarde. Get on the...

In a quest to unearth a genius idea, Dave Gorman, with the help of special guests Paul Daniels, Richard Madeley, John Fortune, Neil Innes and Stewart Lee, peruses a parade of proposals, be they innovations, gadgets, gizmos, philosophies or follies, in an attempt to sort the worthy from the...

More surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. Goon but not forgotten! In these digitally-remasterd episodes, Ned Seagoon, who is bored at the bank where works, decides to run away - with the bank's money. Also, Neddie follows a trail of cold batter puddings to North...