The Goon Show

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BBC Radio 7

Comedy: Sketch

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers star in the groundbreaking classic comedy.

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers star in BBC radio's groundbreaking classic comedy.

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The Goon Show: Operation Christmas Duff

Operation Christmas Duff

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Goon Show, Operation Christmas Duff

With a festive pudding shortage for forces overseas, Neddie Seagoon takes action.

With a festive pudding shortage for forces overseas, Neddie Seagoon takes action. Stars Spike Milligan. From December 1956.

In light of a festive pudding shortage for forces overseas, Neddie Seagoon takes action. 

Soon Richard Dimbleby is reporting on the giant Christmas pudding being mixed at dry dock in Chatham.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.

Starring:

Peter Sellers 
Harry Secombe
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: Pat Dixon

Made for the BBC General Overseas Service and first broadcast to troops in 1956. 

First UK broadcast on Christmas Day 1986 on BBC Radio 4.

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