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"Yehti"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 5
Episode: 24
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 73495
First broadcast8 March 1955 (1955-03-08)
Running time30:40
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Yehti is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twenty-fourth show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9.15pm on Sunday 6 March 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 8 March 1955 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 1.5m.

The show's first repeat was the following Friday at 12.25pm / 12.30pm (depending on area), 11 March 1955, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 1.5 million. The next repeat came 15 years later at 8pm on Saturday 29 August 1970 on Radio 4 as part of Vintage Goons. It was listened to by an audience of 0.6m listeners.

Synopsis

Don't eat yellow snow...

Footprints on the inside of a plastic deer-stalker hat lead the intrepid Neddie Seagoon to a lonely prefab on Carshalton Marshes. What is Admiral Grytpype-Thynne, saxophonist by appointment to the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, doing in the shallow end of Beckenham Baths? And who is the mysterious, highly skilled, BBC Chess photographer found half naked in a rabbit warren near Dungeness? Is the National Geographic Society behind this in its attempt to find the sacred Yehti?

Music

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 73495 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape still exists and was used to make the show included on Compendium Vol 2.[1]

Transcription

Yehti (transcript)

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 2 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4056-8774-4.