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 ...

But in the new comedy series Shifting Gears ... but I actually get more people come up to me about Goon, the hockey movie. What is the weirdest job you’ve ever had prior to acting?

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive. With the Ray Ellington Quartet ...