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*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:My Blue Heaven (song)|My Blue Heaven]]'' {{small|([[w:Walter Donaldson|Walter Donaldson]])}}
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*[[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 Kahn|Gus Kahn]] (lyrics))}} / ''[[w:Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]'' {{small|([[w:Harry Warren|Harry Warren]] (music) / [[w:Mort Dixon|Mort Dixon]] (lyrics))}}


==Technical==
==Technical==

Revision as of 15:54, 4 November 2022

"The Mummified Priest"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 4
Episode: 17
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 42416
First broadcast22 January 1954 (1954-01-22)
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The Mummified Priest is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the seventeenth show in the fourth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 17 January 1954 The recording took place at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Friday 22 January 1954 at 9.45pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 2.3m.

The show's first repeat was the next morning at 8.45am, Saturday 23 January 1954, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 1.1 million.

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

Transcription Service Remake Synopsis

From ancient Egypt , land of monolithic [sic] pyramids and Karnak's fallen temples, comes this gripping story of the discovery of a long-dead Egyptian priest's toomb. It all started one day in 1889 in the British Museum and it finished… but hear for yourselves the strange unfolding of this tale.

Music

Technical

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

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.