The End
| "The End" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 5 Episode: 26 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 74489 |
| First broadcast | 22 March 1955 |
| Running time | 30:45 |
The End (a.k.a. Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twenty-sixth show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 17 January 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, 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 25 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
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays My Blue Heaven (Walter Donaldson)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Yes Sir, That's My Baby (Walter Donaldson (music) / Gus Khan (lyrics)) / Nagasaki (Harry Warren (music) / Mort Dixon (lyrics))
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 42416 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 2 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4056-8774-4.
