11th April 2010:      AGM announced for 1st May
Newsletter no: 129 has now arrived and with it news of the AGM. It will be back at the Old King's Head pub, Old King's Yard, Borough High Street, near London Bridge station again. Starts at 12 noon.   Special Guest:  Richard Bentine, son of Michael.

8th March 2010:     Latest newsletter was delayed but has arrived now.
Apologies all round for the delay but it was unavoidable. Illness and family tragedy combined to halt two of our expected designers (David & Les) to give up on the project, so Colin Silk stepped into the breach. Thanks to all concerned, John (R). chairman.

20th February 2010:    A "new" Group in Devon?
Michael Quinlan proposes a new group in Devon. Any takers? (see Members Forum page).

28th January 2010:    BBC 7 plays the very last goon show…
Yes, they aired the last one, although there was no fanfare, no special introduction, nothing to mark the occasion… How strange.

6th January 2010:   A "new" Group in New Zealand is in the offing.
Peter Black has emailed, searching for like-minded members in NZ. (See Members Forum page.)
 
3rd January 2010:     Happy New Year! It's 2010 !  And that means… An anniversary.
On Thursday the 28th January 1960, the last ever Goon Show was aired (let's ignore the one in 1972, which was after all a one-off 'special'). It was Series 10, episode 6, and was entitled "The Last Smoking Seagoon". Not a particularly great episode, but it was the last one ever. Spike once said that he had many more shows ready to roll, but it would seem that the powers-that-be didn't want to go on. The go on show was finished.

January 2010:   Membership Renewal time folks - see Subs Page here
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5th December 2009:   We have our new Newsletter designer.
His name is David Francis and we'll be hearing more from him soon.

14th November 2009:       Two star guests turned up!
Not only the wonderful Dick Mills (who enthralled us for the whole afternoon) but also a new GSPS member who turned out to be a newly published author; Brian Powdrill. See the Showbiz Page for more details.

1st November 2009:    London Meeting announced - with star guest Dick Mills
At a new venue this time, the "Camel & Artichoke" pub near Waterloo with star guest Dick Mills who is of course famous (along with Paddy Kingsland) for the BBC Radiophonics Workshop which gave us the Doctor Who theme, and The Hitch-Hiker's Guide sounds (amongst others) and for Goon fans' he gave us the immortal gurgling of "Bloodnok's stomach". And all those "night-time in the jungles of East Africa" type sounds; that was Mr Mills as well, so all-in-all, an interesting man to have as our special guest.

30th October 2009:   Anthony Green hands over reins of newsletter design.
Anthony Green has decided to hang-up his palette and let someone else have a go at designing the quarterly newsletter. Editor John Repsch has thanked Anthony for all his hard work over the last couple of years and has said that a replacement has already been found to take his place, so thanks to Anthony for all his help with making the newsletter what it is today.

10th September 2009:   Win tickets to the 'Adolf' play.
Yes folks it's true - we have been given some tickets for the play "Adolf  Hitler - My Part In His Downfall" so get your latest newsletter no: 128 and get entering...

31st July 2009:     Penny Points film a resounding success!
  The BFI's night of nostalgia with "Penny Points to Paradise" and "Let's Go Crazy" were shown in all their finery to a packed auditorium.  And great news:   we have 3 copies to give away in another BFI backed competition, details in newsletter no: 128, out now, but if you can't wait that long, or you're not one of the lucky winners, then ordering details are here: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_13502.html

July 2009:     'Adolf' play a rousing success in the Hampstead Theatre.

June 2009:    "THE British Film Institute launched Flipside, a new strand of  DVDs which aims to rescue, restore and preserve obscure British movies. One of the first on the list was The Bed Sitting Room. To mark the launch of Flipside, the BFI kindly gave the GSPS TWO copies of the film to give away in a competition. (This competition closed on July 30th 2009).

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