Personal Narrative
| "Personal Narrative" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 7 Episode: 8 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Pat Dixon |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 52769 |
| First broadcast | 22 November 1956 |
| Running time | 30:18 |
The Seagoon Memoirs is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the seventh show in the ninth series.
SHOW 160 (7/8):Persona/ Narrative (CD4,Track I) Pre-recording: Sunday 18 November 1956, 5pm,The Camden Theatre. DLO 16600. Recording: Sunday 18 November 1956, 9pm, The Camden Theatre.TLC 16600. First Home Service Broadcasr: Thursday 22 November 1956, 8.30pm. Ratings: 2.3 million. Repear: Monday 26 November 1956, 8pm, 3.6 million [Light Programme]; Sunday 14 August 1983, 12 noon [Radio 4 in Smash of the Day]
Two pre-recording sessions took place:
- Wednesday 28 January 1959, 4.15pm/5.15pm. Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (TLO & C/DLO 76382, TLO 77924)
- Saturday 1 February 1959, 5.45pm, The Paris Cinema (DLO 76513/A)
The recording for transmission was created at 8pm on Sunday 14 December 1958, at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London (TLO 72138).
The first Home Service broadcast was the next day at 8.30pm on Monday 15 December 1958, its ratings were 1.1 million.
The show was repeated:
- Wednesday 9.31pm, 17 December 1958, on the Light Programme to 2.3 million listeners.
- Friday 9.30pm, 6 March 1964 on the Home Service in Vintage Goons, to 0.5 million listeners.
- Friday 9.30pm, 20 August 1965 on the Home Service in Let's Laugh Again, to 0.2 million listeners (the broadcast was affected by a fault on the reproduction equipment).
Transcription Service Synopsis
Being an account of the adventures of Captain Neddie Seagoon RN, drawn from the log of HMS Resolute dated 1662. A ship, identified as Dutch by the clogs it is wearing, threatens to sabotage the British fleet. The Admiralty entrusts the destruction of the foe to Captain Seagoon. Despite the machinations of the spies, Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne, warning beacons are lit on the coast to alert HMS Resolute. A fierce engagement between the two ships ensues, but as the outcome is, fortunately, in the hands of Able Seaman Bluebottle, the result of the battle, is of course, never in doubt. Or is it!
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays This Can't Be Love (w:Richard Rodgers (music) / w:Lorenz Hart (lyrics))
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays That's Right Winfield Scott)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 16600 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 16600 master tape no longer exists, and the show found on Compendium 5 was compiled from the POTG master tape, the TGS disc and a domestic tape recording of the original transmission.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2011). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 5 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 13. ISBN 978-1408-427286.
