Goons producer marks show's 60th anniversary

It's 60 years since BBC listeners first discovered The Goons. None of the stars are still alive but producer Charles Chilton can still recall the pleasure and perils of putting Spike Milligan's extraordinary creation on air.

The Goon Show must go on - 60 years since its debut

Prince Charles, Goon fan and patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society, to give message to mark anniversary.

Between ourselves, I always thought the Goons got a long way with funny voices, strange noises and the comic potential of the term "batter pudding". But it cannot be denied that Sellers, Milligan and Secombe changed the genre with their comic inventiveness, surrealism and sheer cheek: the BBC once banned a scene that had the effrontery to portray the House of Commons dozing gently.

Angela Morley: Composer and arranger

Angela Morley was a versatile musician, a composer, arranger and conductor, who began her professional life as Wally Stott and became nationally known in the 1950s as a stalwart of The Goon Show before undergoing a sex-change.