Andrew Timothy

Andrew Timothy , born in 1912, was at first a local parish priest but later became a BBC Radio announcer who is best known for being the original announcer of the comedy series "The Goon Show". He announced for the BBC Radio Home Service from 1947 until 1959. Later, Timothy was a BBC TV news reader from July until September of 1954. He's the father of actor Christopher Timothy, whose most notable role was probably the vet James Herriot in the BBC TV series "All Creatures Great and Small".

The Goon Show

He announced the show from its inception in 1951, but left part-way through the fourth series in 1953 "fearing for his sanity" and was replaced by Wallace Greenslade, who went on to announce the show until the show's end in 1960. However, when "The Last Goon Show of All" came around in 1972, Greenslade had died in 1961, so Timothy came back to announce the special reunion show. He died on 9 December 1990, aged 78. When a remake of The Goon Show called "Goon Again" was made in 2001, his son Christopher announced the show.