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==Music==
==Music==
*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:My Blue Heaven (song)|My Blue Heaven]]'' {{small|([[w:Walter Donaldson|Walter Donaldson]])}}
*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:You're the Cream in My Coffee|You're the Cream in My Coffee]]'' {{small|([[w:Ray Henderson]] (music) / [[w:Buddy DeSylva|Buddy DeSylva]] (lyrics) / [[w:Lew Brown|Lew Brown]] (lyrics))}}
*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)|Yes Sir, That's My Baby]]'' {{small|([[w:Walter Donaldson|Walter Donaldson]] (music) / [[w:Gus Khan|Gus Khan]] (lyrics))}} / ''[[w:Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]'' {{small|([[w:Harry Warren|Harry Warren]] (music) / [[w:Mort Dixon|Mort Dixon]] (lyrics))}}
*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Lover, Come Back to Me|Lover, Come Back to Me]]'' {{small|([[w:Sigmund Romberg|Sigmund Romberg]] (music) / [[w:Oscar Hammerstein II|Oscar Hammerstein II]] (lyrics))}}


==Technical==
==Technical==

Revision as of 18:18, 18 October 2022

"China Story"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 5
Episode: 17
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 70610
First broadcast18 January 1955 (1955-01-18)
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China Story is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the seventeenth show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9.15pm on Sunday 16 January 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 18 January 1954 at 8.30pm (except the Midlands). It reached a peak listenership of 3.0m.

Repeats
Day Date Time Ratings Station Show
Friday 21 January 1955 12.25pm / 12.30pm 1.9m Home Service
Friday 17 June 1955 7.30pm 3.4m Light Programme
Tuesday 22 November 1955 8.30pm 3.0m Radio 4 replaced The Pevensey Bay Disaster
Saturday 15 August 1970 8pm 0.8m Radio 4 in Vintage Goons
Monday 26 October 1992 11pm Radio 4

Synopsis

During the year of the Boxer Rising when the Far East, from Shanghai to Pekin, was seething with spies and arms smugglers, 'Raffles' Seagoon, a swaggering racketeer and part-time dustman, was approached by Mandarin Grytpype-Thynne and General Kash-Mai-Chek to join them in the most staggering international financial coup of all time.

Music

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 42416 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 2 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4056-8774-4.