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The Goon Show

Series 8

The Junk Affair

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for 9 months

Neddie combs the world for junk, hoping to corner the market and make a packet.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

With:

Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan
Harry Secombe

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 October 1957. Show less

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