Under Two Floorboards
From The Goon Show Depository
| "Under Two Floorboards — A Story of the Legion" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 5 Episode: 18 |
| Written by | |
| Based on | Beau Geste |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 72116 |
| First broadcast | 25 January 1955 |
| Running time | 30:17 |
Under Two Floorboards — A Story of the Legion is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the eighteenth show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9.15pm on Sunday 23 January 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tursday 25 January 1955 at 8.30pm (except Scotland). It reached a peak listenership of 2.6m.
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 20 September 2024.
Synopsis
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Happy Days and Lonely Nights (Fred Fisher)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays [[[w:The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane|The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane]] (Sid Tepper / Roy C Bennett)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 42416 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.
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