Mike Haskins
@mikehaskins.bsky.social
Wrote for lots of comedy people. Still works with Griff Rhys Jones. Author of over 60 books including Beatles' Liverpool. Beatles' Liverpool tours bookable through www.liverpoolfamouswalkingtours.com/
Lonnie Donegan was famously Samuel Beckett's favourite pop star
At last! Bin collection days are back to normal again.
Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man's A Dustman
Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man's A Dustman
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Lonnie Donegan was famously Samuel Beckett's favourite pop star
Ironically if Franz Ferdinand had gone round Sarajevo like this, it might have protected him and World War 1 would never have happened
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo (1896). 📷 google images
January 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Ironically if Franz Ferdinand had gone round Sarajevo like this, it might have protected him and World War 1 would never have happened
John Gorman from the Scaffold, Grimms, Tiswas etc - born 4 January 1936. 90 years old today!
January 4, 2026 at 12:25 PM
John Gorman from the Scaffold, Grimms, Tiswas etc - born 4 January 1936. 90 years old today!
The Beatles' list of engagements in January/February 1963. Quite busy but they've missed off "11 February - record album". Their third single From Me To You would be written on the tour bus heading towards Shrewsbury for the Helen Shapiro tour on 28 Feb
January 2, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The Beatles' list of engagements in January/February 1963. Quite busy but they've missed off "11 February - record album". Their third single From Me To You would be written on the tour bus heading towards Shrewsbury for the Helen Shapiro tour on 28 Feb
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The word is that I’ve a 'movie' out shortly. It's true. My 2022 theatre show The Beatles / Evolver:62 was filmed, and selections from that + new material shot in Liverpool and London comprise a feature that'll be streaming from Feb 2026. More details to follow, sample here vimeo.com/1023543808?f...
Evolver : 62 Promo
60 sec trailer for the forthcoming feature length documentary The Beatles Evolver: 62 with Mark Lewisohn Director / Camera / Editor: Chris Purcell Producer / Camera:…
vimeo.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The word is that I’ve a 'movie' out shortly. It's true. My 2022 theatre show The Beatles / Evolver:62 was filmed, and selections from that + new material shot in Liverpool and London comprise a feature that'll be streaming from Feb 2026. More details to follow, sample here vimeo.com/1023543808?f...
Mrs H sent me to do a quick trip to the tip at 8.15am. The queue was already so long I managed to listent to this entire pod during the visit. But fantastic fun and such a brilliant pair of guests. I think every one of my nominations for this poll failed to make the top 20. So that's an achievement!
LISTENERS' TOP 20 BRITISH SITCOMS OF ALL TIME
pod.link/1569929507
No focus groups, algorithms or AI gremlins were involved in the shaping of this list, just a large yet peculiar group of people with highly-attuned comedy radar - you lot!
With Chris Diamond and @donnarees.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
No focus groups, algorithms or AI gremlins were involved in the shaping of this list, just a large yet peculiar group of people with highly-attuned comedy radar - you lot!
With Chris Diamond and @donnarees.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Mrs H sent me to do a quick trip to the tip at 8.15am. The queue was already so long I managed to listent to this entire pod during the visit. But fantastic fun and such a brilliant pair of guests. I think every one of my nominations for this poll failed to make the top 20. So that's an achievement!
Reposted by Mike Haskins
This was a hoot!! Have a listen if ya fancy....
LISTENERS' TOP 20 BRITISH SITCOMS OF ALL TIME
pod.link/1569929507
No focus groups, algorithms or AI gremlins were involved in the shaping of this list, just a large yet peculiar group of people with highly-attuned comedy radar - you lot!
With Chris Diamond and @donnarees.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
No focus groups, algorithms or AI gremlins were involved in the shaping of this list, just a large yet peculiar group of people with highly-attuned comedy radar - you lot!
With Chris Diamond and @donnarees.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This was a hoot!! Have a listen if ya fancy....
Approaching the statue of William Rathbone in St John's Gardens in Liverpool from this angle makes it look like he's wearing a rather ostentatious hat
December 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Approaching the statue of William Rathbone in St John's Gardens in Liverpool from this angle makes it look like he's wearing a rather ostentatious hat
It's the ball boys I feel sorry for
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A tennis match on the wings of a plane over LA (1925). 📷 google images
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's the ball boys I feel sorry for
If only I'd agreed to pay them that 50p to look after my car
Morning all.
Photograph by Dave Sinclair, 4 boys on a VW Beetle, Vauxhall Rd area, Liverpool early 80’s.
Photograph by Dave Sinclair, 4 boys on a VW Beetle, Vauxhall Rd area, Liverpool early 80’s.
December 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
If only I'd agreed to pay them that 50p to look after my car
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Europe can no longer rely on the US as an ally. The UK should rejoin the EU as a matter of urgency.
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Europe can no longer rely on the US as an ally. The UK should rejoin the EU as a matter of urgency.
While walking from his car to pay for his petrol at this the Fiveways Petrol Station in Norwich, Stephen Fry exchanged a look with my Golden Retriever who was sitting in the back of my car
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
While walking from his car to pay for his petrol at this the Fiveways Petrol Station in Norwich, Stephen Fry exchanged a look with my Golden Retriever who was sitting in the back of my car
Always an excellent and fun podcast. Sad to see it bowing out. But a fab pair of final episodes with lots of great guests and here's to the new venture next year!
For our two-part final episode, we have invited back twelve old friends of the podcast and asked them each a carefully curated Blackadder-related question – prompting much discussion, philosophising and rosy-cheeked caperings.
Thanks for listening!
open.spotify.com/episode/54yR...
Thanks for listening!
open.spotify.com/episode/54yR...
Goodbyeee - Part 1
open.spotify.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Always an excellent and fun podcast. Sad to see it bowing out. But a fab pair of final episodes with lots of great guests and here's to the new venture next year!
Thanks so much to Tyler for having me on his excellent Goon Pod Film Club podcast talking about an Ealing Comedy classic Whisky Galore. But how did this film help bring the world Frank Zappa and The Doors?!!! Tune in and find out!
Goon Pod Film Club: WHISKY GALORE! (1949)
With @mikehaskins.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/whisky...
A Boxing Day film if ever there was one, this classic Ealing comedy featuring Gordon Jackson & James Robertson Justice is a gently subversive elbow in the ribs of officialdom.
Slàinte!
With @mikehaskins.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/whisky...
A Boxing Day film if ever there was one, this classic Ealing comedy featuring Gordon Jackson & James Robertson Justice is a gently subversive elbow in the ribs of officialdom.
Slàinte!
Whisky Galore! (1949) | Goon Pod
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December 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thanks so much to Tyler for having me on his excellent Goon Pod Film Club podcast talking about an Ealing Comedy classic Whisky Galore. But how did this film help bring the world Frank Zappa and The Doors?!!! Tune in and find out!
Christmas day 1947 John Lennon is gifted a harmonica by Harold Phillips, a former serviceman now student at Liverpool University who was renting a room from John's Aunt Mimi and Uncle George at their home Mendips. From Mark Lewisohn's Tune In:
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Christmas day 1947 John Lennon is gifted a harmonica by Harold Phillips, a former serviceman now student at Liverpool University who was renting a room from John's Aunt Mimi and Uncle George at their home Mendips. From Mark Lewisohn's Tune In:
Two Angus McBean cover photos for Parlophone albums produced by George Martin - Milligan Preserved in late 1961 and Please Please Me in March 1963
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Two Angus McBean cover photos for Parlophone albums produced by George Martin - Milligan Preserved in late 1961 and Please Please Me in March 1963
Reposted by Mike Haskins
Here's my other #cartoon from the previous @privateeyenews.bsky.social - new, bumper #christmas edition is out now and I'm delighted to be in that too. #pirates #shadowpuppets #onboardentertainment
December 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Here's my other #cartoon from the previous @privateeyenews.bsky.social - new, bumper #christmas edition is out now and I'm delighted to be in that too. #pirates #shadowpuppets #onboardentertainment
Reposted by Mike Haskins
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
AI used to recreate all the Beatles album covers. I knew they worked quick but this is ridiculous 👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AI used to recreate all the Beatles album covers. I knew they worked quick but this is ridiculous 👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻
This week on Goon Pod - These Are Your Lives!
This week on Goon Pod with John from @world-of-telly.bsky.social we've been watching Spike's two appearances on THIS IS YOUR LIFE - the first one with impish, chaotic Spike; the second one with Spike much older and slower but still with that twinkle!
Listen here: pod.link/1569929507
Listen here: pod.link/1569929507
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This week on Goon Pod - These Are Your Lives!
A great playwright and comedy writer and a very inspiring and lovely man - John Antrobus, who I had the great pleasure of working with on a couple of series for Radio 4 back in the day
Very sad to report that JOHN ANTROBUS died yesterday (15th December) aged 92. A frequent writing collaborator with Spike, he conceived and co-wrote The Bed Sitting Room, two Goon Shows, sketches for the Fred shows & so much more. Glad we got a chance to salute him with a show earlier this year. RIP
December 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A great playwright and comedy writer and a very inspiring and lovely man - John Antrobus, who I had the great pleasure of working with on a couple of series for Radio 4 back in the day
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Here's the link to the show on John we put out earlier this year - with @mikehaskins.bsky.social.
Although we couldn't cover his entire career I think we did alright by him and John was "happy about it"
open.spotify.com/episode/4axP...
Although we couldn't cover his entire career I think we did alright by him and John was "happy about it"
open.spotify.com/episode/4axP...
John Antrobus
open.spotify.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Here's the link to the show on John we put out earlier this year - with @mikehaskins.bsky.social.
Although we couldn't cover his entire career I think we did alright by him and John was "happy about it"
open.spotify.com/episode/4axP...
Although we couldn't cover his entire career I think we did alright by him and John was "happy about it"
open.spotify.com/episode/4axP...
Reposted by Mike Haskins
All it needs is a damn good wrapping! 🎁
Purchased in Liverpool, now in line to become a quiz prize at my local Beatles' club Christmas party on Saturday. (A Beatles quiz, ofc 😉)
•Highly• recommend this beautiful little book about "The Beatles' Liverpool"!
@mikehaskins.bsky.social
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Purchased in Liverpool, now in line to become a quiz prize at my local Beatles' club Christmas party on Saturday. (A Beatles quiz, ofc 😉)
•Highly• recommend this beautiful little book about "The Beatles' Liverpool"!
@mikehaskins.bsky.social
🎄🕺🕺🕺🕺🎄
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
All it needs is a damn good wrapping! 🎁
Purchased in Liverpool, now in line to become a quiz prize at my local Beatles' club Christmas party on Saturday. (A Beatles quiz, ofc 😉)
•Highly• recommend this beautiful little book about "The Beatles' Liverpool"!
@mikehaskins.bsky.social
🎄🕺🕺🕺🕺🎄
Purchased in Liverpool, now in line to become a quiz prize at my local Beatles' club Christmas party on Saturday. (A Beatles quiz, ofc 😉)
•Highly• recommend this beautiful little book about "The Beatles' Liverpool"!
@mikehaskins.bsky.social
🎄🕺🕺🕺🕺🎄