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Who Is Pink Oboe?

Episode 11 of 17

Cowardly Captain Seagoon goes to war. With Peter Sellers away, Graham Stark and Kenneth Connor are enlisted. From January 1959.

Cowardly Captain Neddie Seagoon goes to war.

Groundbreaking, surreal 麻豆社 radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

With Peter Sellers away, Graham Stark and Kenneth Connor are enlisted.

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.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: John Browell

First broadcast on the 麻豆社 Home Service in January 1959

30 minutes

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