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The Goon Show

Series 8

Spon

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 4 months

A certain brown terror awaits Dick Emery, who is filling Harry Secombe's shoes, but not his trousers.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

This a particularly bizarre episode with not only with Dick Emery in place of Harry Secombe but also the musical turns in reverse order. Sapristi!

With:

Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Charles Chilton

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1957. Show less

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