The Gibraltar Story

"The Gibraltar Story"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 4 Episode: 5
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Announcer	Andrew Timothy
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: Adios, Muchachos Ellington: Lullaby of Broadway
Recording Number	TLO 37145
First broadcast	30 October 1953 (1953-10-30)

The Gibraltar Story is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the fifth show in the fourth series. The recording started at 9pm at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 25 October 1953 at 9pm (except for Northern Ireland and the West). It reached a peak listenership of 2.3m. Its first repeat on the Light Programme was on Saturday 31 October 1953 at 10.15pm. It was listened to by 1.1m listeners.

There are no publically available recordings of this show as of 13 November 2024.

Sketches

A Gibraltan Macaque who is less than impressed with Nazi Germany.

• The Adeventures of Fearless Harry Secombe: sees Harry volunteer as a paid volunteer in experiments conducted by Dr Kurl Eidelburger to cure the common cold.
• The Gibraltar Story: William J MacGoonagle recounts the events of June 1944 when Major Bloodnok, Captain Seagoon and London Zoo ape curator Mr Crun aimed to foil a German scheme to kidnap all the monkeys from Gibraltar to cause the British Empire to fail.

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays Adios, Muchachos (Julio Cesar Sanders)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Lullaby of Broadway (Harry Warren / Al Dubin)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 37145 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).