The Mountain Eaters
| "The Mountain Eaters" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 9 Episode: 5 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | John Browell |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 71336 |
| First broadcast | 1 December 1958 |
| Running time | 35:20 |
The Mountain Eaters is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the fifth show in the ninth series.
A pre-recording session took place on Wednesday 26 November 1958 at 4.15pm. The session was recorded at Aeolian Hall Studio 2. DLO 70734 and again on Sunday 30 November 1958 at 4pm at The Camden Theatre (DLO 71336/A).
The show for transmission was recorded at 8pm on Sunday 30 November 1958. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 1 December 1958 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 1.1m.
| Day | Time | Date | Ratings | Station |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | 9.31pm | 3 December 1958 | 3.0 million | Light Programme |
| Thursday | 7.30pm | 11 February 1960 | 0.8 million | Home Service |
| Friday | 7pm | 1 August 1969 | 0.8 million | Radio 4 (Not Wales) |
| Sunday | 12 noon | 16 October 1983 | Radio 4 in Smash of the Day |
Transcription Service Synopsis
As everybody knows, there is only one place in the world where you don't need a licence to eat mountains - India - and that's why the Famous Eccles , who has an insatiable appetite, is discovered at the foot of Mount Everest. How all this can have any connection with the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre is a mystery which is, very considerately, not explained in the script.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays It's All in the Game (Charles Dawes / Carl Sigman)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays There'll Never Be Another You (Harry Warren (music) / Mack Gordon (lyrics))
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 71336 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 71336 master tape no longer exists, and the version of the show found on Compendium 10 has been sourced from an unedited tape in the Bernie Andrews collection, the warm-up and unused material from which appears on CD7 of Compendium 10.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2015). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 10 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 13. ISBN 9781785290312.
