In the 1950s and early 1960s I used to listen regularly on the radio to The Goon Show. In the early days I would listen on an old valve radio with headphones because it was on the radio in the evenings after my bedtime. I just loved the zany humour of Spike Milligan in particular.

In 1968 soon after the BBC Home Service became BBC Radio 4 I was listening to a book programme and they read some of Musrum by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw. I HAD to have the book! So off down to Foyles to buy a copy. It cost me thirty shillings and I still have it – a first edition.

And so I decided to use the name for my website. Like the book, it has some sort of a thread running through it but also has lots of unconnected ramblings. There are some notes on Wikipedia: Anthony Earnshaw

The copyright of his material is retained by his second wife Gail Earnshaw who also owns the website: www.anthonyearnshaw.com

I found a copy of The Sunday Observer colour supplement from 1968 on eBay. It has an article about Anthony Earnshaw. I have transferred it into a PDF file which can be downloaded from this page: CLICK HERE

And 57 years after buying my copy of the first edition of Musrum I was delighted to be able to buy on eBay a copy of the first edition of Wintersol also written by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw.