The International Christmas Pudding

"The International Christmas Pudding"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 6 Episode: 9
Written by	Spike Milligan
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: Me and My Gal Ellington: The Crocodile Crawl
Recording Number	TBU 52103 (changed from TLO 90462)
First broadcast	15 November 1955 (1955-11-15)
Running time	29:24

The International Christmas Pudding (announced as The Great International Christmas Pudding) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the nineth show in the sixth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 13 November 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 15 November 1955 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.0m.

Repeats

Day	Date	Time	Ratings	Station	Show
Saturday	19 November 1955	7.30pm	2.3m	Light Programme
Tuesday	10 April 1956	8.30pm	2.6m	Home Service
Friday	28 February 1975	6.15pm	0.6m	Radio 4	Encore the Goons; Not Scotland or Wales
Wednesday	26 December 1984	1.05pm		Radio 4	in Smash of the Day
Friday	25 December 1987	4pm		Radio 2
Thursday	25 December 1997	3pm		Radio 2	in Classic Comedy: Pick of the Goons

Transcription Service Remake Synopsis

From ancient Egypt , land of monolithic [sic] pyramids and Karnak's fallen temples, comes this gripping story of the discovery of a long-dead Egyptian priest's toomb. It all started one day in 1889 in the British Museum and it finished… but hear for yourselves the strange unfolding of this tale.

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays My Blue Heaven (Walter Donaldson)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Yes Sir, That's My Baby (Walter Donaldson (music) / Gus Khan (lyrics)) / Nagasaki (Harry Warren (music) / Mort Dixon (lyrics))

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 42416 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).