The Secret Escritoire
From The Goon Show Depository
| "The Secret Escritoire" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 6 Episode: 2 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 87028 |
| First broadcast | 27 September 1955 |
| Running time | 30:15 |
The Secret Escritoire is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the second show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 25 September 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 27 September 1955 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.8m.
The show's first repeat was the following Saturday at 7.30pm, 1 October 1955, on the Light Programme. It was listened to by 1.9 million.
Synopsis
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The ghastly story of a sinister plan laid bare by the nimble discovery of a dreaded corpse in an empty match-box (obviously not safety matches)
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Someone to Watch Over Me (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Play It, Boy (Matt Dubey / Harold Karr)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 87028 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 3 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4084-1044-8.
