The Goons - The Goon Show Compendium Volume Two (Series 5 - Part 2) (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK) - Spike Milligan & Eric Sykes Audiobook

Written by Spike Milligan & Eric Sykes
Read by Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe Peter Sellers
Format: FLAC
Dramatization

The Goons - The Goon Show Compendium Volume Two (Series 5 - Part 2) (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK)

This work contains twelve episodes of the groundbreaking series, plus one bonus unbroadcast show. Immensely popular and hugely influential, legendary series “The Goon Show” changed the face of British comedy.

Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order of original broadcast date.

Also featured are some rare archive bonus items, including the unbroadcast and previously unreleased version of “The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler” (of “Bexhill-on-Sea”).

Remastered using new material and the latest technology to give the best possible sound quality, these recordings are sure to appeal to all collectors of “The Goon Show”.

TRACKS:

01 - Show 113 (S05 - E14) - Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest
(Recorded: December 19, 1954)
(Broadcast: December 28, 1954)
02 - Show 114 (S05 - E15) - Nineteen Eighty-Five
(Recorded: January 2, 1955)
(Broadcast: January 4, 1955)
03 - Show 115 (S05 - E16) - The Case of the Missing Heir
(Recorded: January 9, 1955)
(Broadcast: January 11, 1955)
04 - Show 117 (S05 - E18 ) - Under Two Floorboards - A Story of the Legion
(Recorded: January 23, 1955)
(Broadcast: January 25, 1955)
05 - Show 118 (S05 - E19) - The Missing Scroll
(Recorded: January 30, 1955)
(Broadcast: February 1, 1955)
06 - Show 119 (S05 - E20) - Nineteen Eighty-Five (remake)
(Recorded: January 30, 1955)
(Broadcast: February 8, 1955)
07 - Show 120 (S05 - E21) - The Sinking of Westminster Pier - A Terrible Topical Tragedy
(Recorded: February 13, 1955)
(Broadcast: February 15, 1955)
08 - Show 121 (S05 - E22) - The Fireball of Milton Street
(Recorded: February 20, 1955)
(Broadcast: February 22, 1955)
09 - Show 122 (S05 - E23) - The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street (a.k.a The Terrible Blasting of Moreton’s Bank)
(Recorded: February 27, 1955)
(Broadcast: March 1, 1955)
10 - Show 123 (S05 - E24) - Yehti
(Recorded: March 6, 1955)
(Broadcast: March 8, 1955)
11 - Show 124 (S05 - E25) - The White Box of Great Bardfield
(Recorded: March 13, 1955)
(Broadcast: March 15, 1955)
12 - Show 125 (S05 - E26) - The End (a.k.a Confessions of a Secret Senna-pod Drinker)
(Recorded: March 20, 1955)
(Broadcast: March 22, 1955)

BONUS TRACKS:

13 - BBC 7 Eric Sykes Introduction - The Sinking of Westminster Pier - A Terrible Topical Tragedy
(Recorded: Late August 2005)
14 - The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) (Pre-show)
(Recorded: 22 May 1955)
15 - The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)[ (Not Broadcast)
(This is a new performance of 5/3. This session was originally planned for a production of a special programme ‘Summer Is A Comin’ (In). Spike Milligan fell ill and the script was never completed. Peter Sellers plays all of Milligan’s parts)
(Recorded: 22 May 1955)
16 - The Lid off the BBC- 4: The Variety Department
(A series of inside stories showing how the BBC does it’s work and how programmes are made)
(Recorded: 3 May 1955)
17 - The Critics
(Recorded: 20 January 1955)

CAST: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and Wallace Greenslade as announcer

NOTE: Show 116 (S05 - E17) ‘The China Story’ was not included in this boxset due to the rights being owned by EMI at the time. However, it has recently been included on ‘The Goons Show Compendium Volume Twelve’ boxset.

New Rips from the original cd’s using EAC (Secure mode) and converted to FLAC8 using dBpoweramp.