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The Starlings
London is besieged by birds! Special recording with no audience or orchestra. Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From 1954.
London is completely besieged by 30 million roosting starlings in Trafalgar Square.
Groundbreaking, surreal 麻豆社 radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
Special recording with no audience or orchestra.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren鈥檛 kept in the archive.
Announcer: Andrew Simmons
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the 麻豆社 Home Service in August 1954.
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02:30
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