The Goon Show

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

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: Series 9: Who Is Pink Oboe?

Who Is Pink Oboe?

Series 9

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Goon Show, Series 9, Who Is Pink Oboe?

Cowardly Captain Seagoon is at war. With Peter Sellers on leave, Graham Stark is enlisted.

Cowardly Captain Seagoon goes to war. With Peter Sellers away, Graham Stark and Kenneth Connor are enlisted. From January 1959.

Cowardly Captain Neddie Seagoon goes to war. 

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

With Peter Sellers away, Graham Stark and Kenneth Connor are enlisted. 

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: John Browell

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1959

The Goon Show: Series 9

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