The Seagoon Memoirs

"The Seagoon Memoirs"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 9 Episode: 7
Written by	Larry Stephens Maurice Wiltshire
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	John Browell
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: I Kiss Your Little Hand, Madame Ellington: The Late Late Show
Recording Number	TLO 72138
First broadcast	15 December 1958 (1958-12-15)
Running time	30:03

The Seagoon Memoirs is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the seventh show in the ninth series.

Pre-recording: Wednesday 10 December 1958, 4.15pm. Aeolian Hall Studio 2. DLO 71859; Saturday 13 December 1958, 4.15pm, The Paris. DW 71274; Sunday 14 December 1958, 4pm, The Camden Theatre. DLO 72138/A.

Recording: Sunday 14 December 1958, 8pm, The Camden Theatre. TLO 72138. First Home Service Broadcast: Monday 15 December 1958, 8.30pm. Ratings: I.I million.

Repeats: Wednesday 17 December 1958, 9.31pm, 2.3 million, RI: 67 [Light Programme]; Friday 6 March 1964, 9.30pm, 0.5 million. RI: 69 [Home Service in Vintage Goons]; Friday 20 August 1965, 9.30pm, 0.2 million [Home Service in Let's Laugh Again; broadcast affected by fault on reproduction equipment].

The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 6 January 1960. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 20 September 1955 at 8.30pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 2.3m.

The show's first repeat was the following Wednesday at 9.31pm, 26 November 1958, on the Light Programme. It was listened to by 3.0 million.

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 I Kiss Your Little Hand, Madame (Walter Donaldson)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays The Late Late Show (Walter Donaldson (music) / Gus Kahn (lyrics))

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 72138 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).