The Egg of the Great Auk
From The Goon Show Depository
| "The Egg of the Great Auk" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 3 Episode: 2 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Andrew Timothy |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Editing by | Jimmy Grafton |
| Recording Number | SOX 82948 |
| First broadcast | 18 November 1952 |
The Egg of the Great Auk (aka Show 44) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the second show in the second series. The show was recorded at 9.30pm on Sunday 16 November 1952 The recording took place at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 18 November 1952 at 9.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 1.8m. Its first repeat on the Light Programme at 4.30pm on Sunday 23 November 1952 increased the peak listernship to 4.7m. As of 17 September 2024 no copies of this show are known to exist.
Sketches
- Handsome Harry Secombe undergoes plastic surgery from Rissoldo Sellers to hide from the police who want to arrest him for stealing rubber bands from the BBC;
- Adapted from the Classics: The Egg of the Great Auk in which ornithologist Henry Crun hires Major Bloodnok to set off on a quest to find a Great Auk.
Music
- Max Geldray plays Embraceable You (George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics))
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Stop, Relax, Think (Duke Ellington)
Technical
Originally recorded on SOX 82948 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at 200 Oxford Street, London. [1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2017). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 13 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 27. ISBN 9781785298776.
