Mike Haskins

Great pod and great mention for Griff's current one man tour! Thanks, Tyler! Wrexham this Friday 17 Oct. Other dates here www.ents24.com/uk/tour-date...

Very good. Very interested to hear the detailed discussion of why the flange pedal is not named after Fred Flange. But then, much like the identity of the man who tried to destory London's monument, the actual origin of the pedal is in the end not given!

Griff pops up around the 10:21 mark - but manages to introduce a bit of drama when they seem to lose him on the phone for a few moments. A nice interview though www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio Merseyside - Tony Snell, 02/10/2025 Great music, interviews, quizzes and all the weekday talking points.

Griff Rhys Jones will be on Tony Snell's show on Radio Merseyside sometime after 10 this morning - talking about his forthcoming one man show (which I help him with a little bit!) at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton on 12 October www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thanks, Paul. Let's just say a few weeks ago I was asked by medical staff on several occasions: "So... do you still have the rest of it?" No, I didn't. Guitar player as well!

Another very interesting and entertaining episode. In answer to your question, no Stuart Sutcliffe would not have met John Lennon at the time he appeared on Youth Wants to Know with Spike Milligan in early 1957 as John didn't start at Liverpool Art College until September that year

GOON POD Q&A
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This week Tyler tackles listeners' questions!

What if Spike had written for Tony Hancock?
Why did Barry Cryer complain about the Goons?
Was Minnie Bannister inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein?

..And much much more!
With @adamsleslie.bsky.social

At the doctor's. My finger looks like it's auditioning for a small role in Return of The Mummy

Brian Patten obituary One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

Brian Patten - one of the Liverpool Poets with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri - has died aged 79 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

YouTube video by Rob Hack Yoko Ono - Music of the Mind (1967)

26 September 1967 Yoko Ono appeared at the Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool. When Yoko did a piece which involved her being entirely wrapped up in bandages, the Scaffold's John Gorman famously called from the back of the hall: "You're wanted on the phone, love!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxNJ...

They don't actually say this on the podcast BTW. I just spotted it!

EP005 - I Saw Her Standing There | The Beatles: Note By Note

Listening to this great pod shows.acast.com/the-beatles-.... I Saw Her Standing There is quite like When The Saints Go Marching In, the one song Paul learnt on the trumpet. Also Beatles/Goons crossover has anyone noticed when John songs "Held her hand in mi-ine" it's "Hello Ji-im" from the Goons!

At Heswall Hall tonight speaking to the Heswall Society about Beatles' Liverpool using a head mic last used by Clare Balding!

One young man asked me, "Who were The Goons?" And I was able to tell him!

Spencer Leigh's column in the Liverpool Echo the other day ahead of Griff's appearance at the Floral Pavlion, New Brighton on 12 October. Get your tickets now while you can!

A couple of my colleagues from Liverpool Famous Walking Tours with a friend last week. Unfortunately she had made herself scarce by the time I was doing the tour in the afternoon!

A fantastic tour of Hamburg with Garry and Paul. Next time they say they're coming to do a tour of Beatle sites in Liverpool. Well, I'm available! Although they probably know more than I do!

Another fab and fascinating show from the team at Goon Pod whose work I recommended to some young folks I was speaking to at Birkenhead Sixth Form College last week - and, do you know what, they were either extraordinarily polite or genuinely interested!

THE NADGER PLAGUE
With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social

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Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?

The old Compton Hotel building on Church Street, Liverpool almost ready to re-open as Sports Direct who have had their name engraved on the plaque at the top so people in the future will think Sports Direct dates back to 1867

The John Lennon lambanana outside Arrowe Park Hospital where I had to spend a bit of time the other week. Presumably inspired by the well known Beatles lyric "lambanana-nana-na-nahhhh...."

Down here ready for another Beatles Liverpool tour with Liverpool Famous Walking Tours

One of several Sellers shows on BBC Sounds at the moment. Did not know the Not The Nine O'Clock News connection to Sellers' death. Also Michael Sellers claims he was the source of "He's fallen in the water" What do you think of that @goonpod.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

THE FILMS PETER SELLERS NEVER MADE
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Peter Sellers - 100 this week! - appeared in a lot of movies but there were a lot he turned down (The Producers) or were simply never made (The Phantom vs The Fourth Reich) - we discuss a bunch of them this week!
With guest actor Patrick Strain

Tim Stanley who advocated for Brexit, "The biggest policy mistake was mass migration"

As ChatGPT sums it up, "The UK has seen more legal migration after Brexit mainly because leaving the EU ended the free movement of EU citizens, forcing the UK to switch to a points-based immigration system"

If you ever run out of things to say about Blackadder please carry on by talking more about Father Ted instead.

You could do an episode on this extremely funny novel by Arthur Mathews for example

Bonus Episode 06 - "Ted Talk", on Father Ted | Lord of Adders Black

In this special “Ted Talk”, we examine why an oddball comedy about three priests on a remote island should strike such a chord with audiences

And Fearghal from bsky.app/profile/feck... pops in to share a few insights about the innate Irishness of Father Ted.

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This week on Goon Pod:

THE FILMS PETER SELLERS NEVER MADE
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The moment Terry Scott came up with the idea for The Human Centipede