The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)
| "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 5 Episode: 8 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
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| Recording Number | TLO 67106 |
| First broadcast | 16 November 1954 |
| Running time | 29 mins 59 secs |
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved) is an episode from The Goon Show. It was the eighth show in series 5. It was recorded on Sunday 14 November 1954 at 9.15pm. It was recorded at The Paris Cinema, 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.
The first Home Service broadcast was on Tuesday 16 November 1954 at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 1.1m listeners.
Story
What do Crun, Bannister, and Co., the Deptford Shipwrights, know of the mystery of the Marie Celeste? And why is Admiral Bloodnok so anxious to withhold Admiralty charts from Neddie Seagoon? And who is the mysterious philanthropist offering £5,000 for information about the Marie Celeste? And did Crun, Bannister and Co. really build the missing ship? And who were the original members of the crew masquerading under the pseudonyms of Bluebottle, Throat, Bogg, Eccles, Yakamoto, Eidelburger, Headstone and Grytpype-Thynne? We shall see!
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 67106 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape survived in TS until 1970, when it was destroyed. The version included on Compendium Vol 1 was sourced from the Sound Archive shelf copy (T28578) (a 15 ips ¼" tape) and was dubbed to DAT in 1990.
