An accolade from beyond the five-mile limit

August 3, 2026 — 9:00pmFor the sake of the sound of sensation across the nation, Geoff Gilligan of Coogee would like to thank Herald culture scribe Karl Quinn: “Your article on Bill Oddie (July 30 ) answered a question that comes into my head about every decade. It regarded a skit on a TV show that featured a pirate radio station that had only one record. I hadn’t been able to remember the program. Karl’s tribute mentioned that it was from an episode of The Goodies. The tune was A Walk in the Black Forest (aka Eine Schwarzwaldfaht), by Horst Jankowski.” Granny always wished they’d made good on Graeme’s scheme for a Pirate Church of England.“I share Helen Lewin’s frustration with the dubbing of English films (C8),” says Elizabeth Savage of Hughes (ACT). “In Italy in the ’60s, my friend and