The Goodies of Channel 4's daytime game show "Beat the Nation", in which they indulged in usual game show "banter", but took the quiz itself seriously. Oddie hosts a very successful series of nature programmes for the BBC. The trio reunited in Australia for "The Goodies (Still A) Live on Stage" as part of Sydney's Big Laugh Comedy Festival in March 2005. The show toured the country, visiting Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra and selling out most of the 13 performances. A further Australian tour by the Goodies, sans Bill, took place during November and December 2005. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden took
Charles Maxwell (radio producer) appointed as Chief Producer of Light Entertainment at BBC Radio 4 and was the commissioning producer for another long running series, I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, that launched the careers of people like John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor. Maxwell retired from the BBC in 1970 and died in August 1998. Shortly before his death, in June 1998, he shared his reminiscences of the early career of Frank Muir, who died earlier in the year, on BBC Radio 4's "Frank Muir-a Kentish Lad Remembered". Charles Maxwell (radio producer) Charles Chalmers Maxwell (1 September 1910 – 4