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"Operation Bagpipes"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 4
Episode: 9
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 37891
First broadcast27 November 1953 (1953-11-27)
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Operation Bagpipes is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the nineth show in the fourth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 15 November 1953 The recording was made at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Friday 27 November 1953 at 9.30pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 1.5m. The show's first repeat was on the Light Programme on Saturday 21 November 1953 it was listened to by 1.5m people.

No known, publically available recording, is known to exist as of 26 December 2024.

Story

A Nazi Sturmbannführer interogating a captured set of bagpipes

Operation Bagpipes is a wartime story of how the bagpipes of the Hooland Division fell into enemy hands at El Alamein. Major Bloodnok and Captain Seagoon lead a commando squad in Libya to venture behind German lines to Rommel's HQ to recover or destroy the captured instrument or have Mr Crun render it harmless by removing its chanter.

Music

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 37891 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2017). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 13 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7852-9877-6.