Back in November 2007 we put a new man at the helm of producing the society's newsletters.  Anthony Green, from Leeds. He started with NL120, shown here, and now has several under his belt since taking over from Colin Silk. (Colin, being the Membership Secretary as well was finding it increasingly difficult to spare the time).  The editorial was and still is, under the remit of John Repsch, with the design, layout & style being created by Anthony. So we thought it about time we should publicise them before they slowly but surely enter the back-issues world of the archive.
Which is where the lovely Gill Nicholas comes in on her back-numbers' page.
* read about Anthony's retirement from this post on the Society News page, October 2009.

This edition, NL124, which came out for December 2008, featured as its lead article, the finding of an extremely rare script dated April 1949. In fact, to date we cannot trace any other copies of this particular show anywhere. So rare that even the BBC don't have a copy. A full story featured over several pages inside.

Also in this issue was an intriguing tale of a recording that Spike made in 1986 for the Richmond & Twickenham's "Talking Newspapers For The Blind" in an interview he gave to Jackie Weiler. Again, not heard of since that day, but is now available to the masses on CD as "Chit Chat - The Fight For Sight" at www.wienerworld.com

This archives page itself is where we would share with you some snippets of interest, articles etc. culled from previous society newsletters, to whet your appetite as it were and hopefully stir something in you to make you consider joining the GSPS. Or even order back-issues from Gill Nicholas to see what you have been missing.
So here's a story from NL: 110

"Following Spike's death a veritable plethora of books suddenly poured out of publishing houses the length & breadth of the land. Some were wonderful, some were indifferent, and some were written by people who hadn't even met the man!

As with everything, it's a personal choice as to which one you would say was the best, so to help you make your mind up, dear reader, nl:110 contained an appraisal of each of them. Norma Farnes' (Spike's long-suffering manager and best friend) ranks amongst the best. Our own Maxine Ventham (a previous secretary of the GSPS) came out with "His Part In Our Lives" and at the memorial for Spike (in London), John Antrobus chatted to GSPS members Les Drew & Phil Ladd and announced his book "Surviving Spike Milligan" which was about their time working together at ALS (Associated London Scripts). Indeed you can hear his name credited on some of the latter Goon Shows to that effect. So, a worthy read."