The Greatest Mountain in the World
| "The Greatest Mountain in the World" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 04 Episode: 23 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 50206 |
| First broadcast | 1 March 1954 |
| Running time | 30:40 |
The Greatest Mountain in the World is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twenty-third show in the fourth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 28 February 1954 The recording was made at the Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 1 March 1954 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 2.3m.
The show's first repeat was on the following Saturday morning at 8.45am, 6 March 1954, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 1.1 million.
No known, publically available recording is known to exist as of 25 December 2024.
BBC Audio Synopsis
There is consternation in the basement of the disused fish squirting factory when the Right (and Left) Honourable Sir Harry Seagoon announces his intention of going one better than Sir Edmund Hillary and climbing a mountain higher than Everest. Where will he find it? Crun has a bright(ish) idea — they'll build their own in Hyde Park. But they've reckoned without the Minister of Works — and Eccles. The results are explosive. There's only one thing for it — deep sea mountaineering and an expedition to locate the submerged Mount Fred. Yes folks, it's a climb down.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Carnivalito (Edmundo P Zaldivar)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays I Got a Girl in Kalamazoo (Mack Gordon / Harry Warren)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 50206 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]
Ted kendall's Restoration
This show exists in the BBC Sound Archives on MT20354, but the source for the release of this show on Compendium Vol 14 was the BBC acetate disc from which the archive tape was copied. The disc is now stored in the British Library Sound Archive.[2]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.
