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  The Independent

  Monty Norman: Composer behind James Bond’s signature music

  The eternally popular theme, together with the now-famous shots of the gun barrel and 007 firing back, has accompanied every Bond film since ‘Dr No’

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  The Argus

  Star Wars actor and son of Goon Show star helping to raise cancer awareness

  A STAR Wars actor has teamed up with a charity to raise awareness after his father, who starred on The Goon Show, died of prostate cancer.

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  Bournemouth Echo UK

  Car parking could be reduced in Boscombe under controversial new plans

  CAR parking in Boscombe could be reduced under controversial new plans because the spaces are "underused".

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  The Guardian

  Spike review – capering tribute summons the wise-cracking Goon’s spirit

  Spike review – capering tribute summons the wise-cracking Goon’s spirit. Watermill theatre, NewburyFast-paced portrait of Spike Milligan hurls us between the comic’s anarchic Goon Show sketches, cartoonish clashes with the BBC and the trauma of war

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  The Telegraph

  Wyn Calvin, beloved Welsh comedian who took the art of playing the pantomime dame to new heights – obituary

  Wyn Calvin, who has died aged 96, was invariably billed as “The Welsh Prince of Laughter” but he was also acclaimed “the Laurence Olivier of pantomime dames”.

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  The Guardian

  Spike Milligan was the true father of modern satire, says Ian Hislop

  Spike Milligan was the true father of modern satire, says Ian Hislop. Private Eye editor tells of new play about the anarchic comic – and reveals his run-ins over Goons scripts with the BBC

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