Giant Bombardon

With the war going badly, Neddie Seagoon is tasked with finding a huge leather cannon.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
Valentine Dyall

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: Roy Speer

The original show was first broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1954 with special guest Michael Bentine.

This is a re-recording from October 1958 with an edited script - made by the BBC Transcription Service for broadcast overseas.

First BBC broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in October 2009.