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Richard Usher
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🎙️#VoiceOverArtist * 🎭#Actor * 📖#Storyteller Represented by Wozniak Management @wozmanagement 🎭 http://spotlight.com/4619-4507-4363 🛜Website: www.richardusher.co.uk
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 16d
FOLKS!

We are VERY CLOSE to securing the archive of Galton and Simpson - so the writers of Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son (or Sanford and Son, if you like) for the nation. Every little helps - can you help?

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project
Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · 20d
The #GaltonandSimpson archive needs to be preserved for future generations, it is a treasure trove and a very special resource. The appeal needs just £600, so if you can donate, please do...details in Gary's post.
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 20d
FOLKS!

We are SO VERY NEAR to securing the peerless archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the nation, forever. That's Hancock, Steptoe and Son plus so so much more. Its all their scripts, professional correspodence, plus diaries, working notes - the lot

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project
Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 22d
Folks!

Folks!

AMAZING NEWS! Thanks to some INCREDIBLY GENEROUS donations from fans and the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, we are now just SIX HUNDRED POUNDS (alright, £663) short of securing the Galton and Simpson archive for the nation.

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project
Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more
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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 22d
Informed that it is the 65th birthday of It's A Square World today.

Me and @tiltaraiza.bsky.social had a chat about the show a while back & speculated that it may have included the first ever Dr Who parody, with Clive Dunn as Hartnell's Doctor.

Full show here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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goonshow.org @goonshow.org · 27d
A quick reminder, the Goon Show Preservation Society's annual meeting is this Saturday in Finchley, near to the home of the East Finchley boy hero Bluebottle.
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GSPS Annual Meeting – 13 September 2025
The 2025 annual GSPS member’s meeting is set for Saturday, 13th September. Once again, we’ll be gathering within earshot of the Spike Milligan Memorial Bench and the Lodge House which h…
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · 27d
Reggie Perrin?
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Sep 8
Delighted to be working with NeuNoir Theatre again this Halloween, with our 5th production: a reading of Poe's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.

We're visiting #Birmingham, #Kenilworth, #Worcester, #Stourbridge, and #NorthYorkshire too.

#gothic #halloween2025 #literature #theatre #edgarallanpoe
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goonshow.org @goonshow.org · Sep 2
There are several Peter Sellers themed programmes on Radio 4 Extra next week. I've updated my list here:
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Sellers Centenary on the BBC
As Peter Sellers 100th birthday approaches on 8th September, the BBC is airing a variety of programmes from the archives to mark the occasion.BBC2:Monday 1st September, 11.00pmThe Life And Death Of…
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Aug 21
If you have ever been inspired creatively by a favourite movie you will understand the love that radiates from this project. Beautiful artwork inspired by #StarTrekTheMotionPicture and the amazing V'ger #Voyager plotline, painted by my dear friend, #PaulHarraway

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ph1...
VOYAGER
Paintings informed by a motion picture
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · Aug 11
Friends! Chums! Eccentric millionaires of my acquaintance!

By popular demand, we have REOPENED our AMAZING CROWDFUNDER for the Galton and Simpson Archive, so please pass this on to fans of comedy history, Tony Hancock, Steptoe and Son etc etc

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project
Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · Aug 11
Mes braves!

If you missed it earlier, due to very, er, popular demand, we have re-opened our Galton and Simpson Archive fundraiser. If you feel minded, nay, called upon to chip in, please do:

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project
Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Aug 6
Hope it is going well Stephen. I've messaged you here and via Facebook with regards to our GSPS AGM, I hope you received the messages okay? Just wondered if there is a better way to get in touch? Regards, Richard
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Aug 5
And coincidentally, look what just arrived in my email inbox! A remastered re-release! www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-soundt...
Space: 1999 | Barry GRAY • Derek WADSWORTH | CD
Space: 1999, Years 1 and 2, CD Soundtrack. Music Composed by Barry Gray, Derek Wadsworth, Silva Screen, SILCD1641
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Aug 5
Yep, Jack Duckworth himself! He was quite a renowned singer and had many albums produced by Derek Wadsworth. Derek also went under the name Daniel Caine and produced and conducted the only released version of 'The A-Team' TV scores.
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Aug 5
It absolutely is! I was corresponding with Derek to arrange an interview slot for Bill Tarmey and we got chatting all things 'Space: 1999'. I invited him in when Gerry Anderson was a special guest and gave them a wonderful reunion as they'd not worked together for 15 years - Fandersontastic!
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Aug 5
They get all the best ideas from TV! I got to know the composer of the music that goes with that title sequence, lovely chap called Derek Wadsworth. He gave me one of the last of his privately pressed CD's of the score long before it was released. He produced Dusty Springfield, Bill Tarmey and more.
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Jul 29
That's a brilliant post! I just realised I missed the 207th anniversary of my own stunt (did you know I was a time traveller?) stjohnswaterloo.org/usher-the-cl...
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Jul 25
Love the t-shirt squire! youtu.be/TYQVUPy_jlQ?...
Happy 54th Birthday YTV Yorkshire Television!
YouTube video by Richard Usher
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Jul 18
The professional rejection of one’s creative and comedy efforts is a funny old thing, ironically. I’ve always loved writing and performing my own comedy material, but nothing has ever been commissioned, it’s always rejected. ALWAYS. It’s like a jigsaw piece that never fits any puzzle. Ah well…
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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · Jul 17
Dirk Maggs and Ted Kendall are this week's guests on Goon Pod, gassing about Goons!
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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · Jul 16
Loved this in-depth talk about the 1991 Goon Show documentary I made with Mike Pointon. Spike, Harry, Mike Bentine, Angela Morley & Eric Sykes gave unstintingly & Ted Kendall found terrific clips. It led to Ted and I restoring The Last Goon Show Of All from the original 1” eight-track master tapes.
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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · Jul 16
New! AT LAST THE GO ON SHOW with Dirk Maggs & Ted Kendall
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(also featuring the marvellous @graemelf.bsky.social )

Dirk & Ted have done more than most to introduce new generations of fans to the Goons - and this is where the story really starts!
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Jul 15
I have deleted my accounts with them and I'm going to study up on how to encrypt and protect my creative property in the future. Eternal vigilance is the price of creative freedom?
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · Jul 2
FOLKS!

We have SEVEN DAYS to raise £700 as part of our crowdfunder, and then we unlock a further £3,000 from an external donor!

All yer info here, link in the description

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Innit' Marvellous? The Galton and Simpson Archive Campaign
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goonshow.org @goonshow.org · Jul 2
Advance Notice – The GSPS Annual Meeting – 13th September
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GSPS Annual Meeting – 13 September 2025
The 2025 annual GSPS member’s meeting is set for Saturday, 13th September. Once again, we’ll be gathering within earshot of the Spike Milligan Memorial Bench and the Lodge House which h…
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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · Jul 1
Great movie! I was born a few hundred yards away from where the petrol station scenes were filmed. The pub across the road that’s in shot from time to time was one of my local haunts when I still lived in Hull.
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