The Policy

"The Policy"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 8 Episode: 9
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: Button Up Your Overcoat Ellington: You'd Better Know It
Recording Number	TLO 42750
First broadcast	25 November 1957 (1957-11-25)
Running time	30:47

The Junk Affair is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the second show in the eighth series.

A pre-recording session (DLO 42570A [effects]) took place Sunday 24 November 1957, 5pm. at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London. The recording for transmission (TLO 42570) was created later that same Sunday, at 9.15pm, also at The Camden.

The first Home Service broadcast was the next day, Monday at 8.30pm 25 November 1957, its ratings were 1.5 million. It was then repeated on the Light Programme the following Thursday 28 November 1957 at 9pm to 3.0 million listeners. The next repeat was 26 years later at 12.00 noon, Sunday 25 September 1983 on Radio 4 in Smash of the Day.

Transcription Service Synopsis

Neddie Seagoon is persuaded to buy a ₤10,000 life insurance. With the policy comes an interesting little booklet entitled ‘One hundred easy ways to get deceased’. You can be quite sure that Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne have something to do with the plot and, quite frankly, we don't think much of Neddie's chances.

Music

• The BBC Orchestera was conducted by Wally Stott.
• Max Geldray plays Button Up Your Overcoat (Ray Henderson / Buddy G. DeSylva / Lew Brown)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays You'd Better Know It (Duke Ellington / Peter Strayhorn).

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 42750 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). The TLO 42750 master tape no longer exists, so the show included in The Goon Show Compendium Vol 8 was compiled from the TGS disc, the POTG master tape and a domestic recording of the original transmission.