Roaring candle

My earliest memory of "The Goon Show" is of Dad listening to it on ABC radio - and frequently chuckling - while I as a young kid struggled to understand what the hell was going on. Later, I found that my best cousins, TH and GH, were also devotees of the program. This was no surprise as they were into all things British and comedy-related. I may have mentioned before that the pair even made their own little humorous audio shows using a portable tape recorder and mic. Later still, I spied some "Goon" tapes in the bedroom of my pal JH. They belonged to his father, who was happy for me to borrow them. I won't say this led to me tracking down every episode or becoming an authority on "T/G/S"; it's just something I've always liked. And recently I've been thoroughly enjoying trawling the archive of the podcast "Goon Pod", which as well as analysing eps and key figures, does interesting tangents on stuff such as Jonathan Miller's uniquely strange and striking 1966 "Alice In Wonderland".