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Shifting Sands
Episode 17 of 26
Soldier Neddie Seagoon heads off to the fort at Waziri, which is drifting into peril. Stars Spike Milligan. From January 1957.
Soldier Neddie Seagoon heads off to the fort at Waziri, which is drifting into peril.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
Jack Train
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
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1957.
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