But with Russia now seemingly on the back foot, high-ranking officials have lashed out - with the UK in their cross-hairs. Adalbi Shkhagoshev, who sits in Russia's State Duma, claimed "Britain ...

QUESTION What is the story behind the harmonica player Max Geldray, who features on The Goon Show? BORN Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz ...

Spike Milligan, the last of the Goons, is dead. The madcap comic, who was 83, died early today at his home near Rye, East Sussex, surrounded by his family, his agent Norma Farnes said. Milligan ...

Eventually, they managed to get a series on the BBC Home Service. The first series was called Crazy People, but it was then re-titled The Goon Show (the word 'Goon' came from a Popeye cartoon). In the ...

In search of lost time: Remembering The Last Goon Show Of All Itself produced as part of the BBC's own 50th birthday celebrations, The Last Goon Show Of All marks 50 years since its broadcast this ...