Yehti
| "Yehti" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 5 Episode: 24 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 73495 |
| First broadcast | 8 March 1955 |
| Running time | 30:40 |
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
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
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Mobile (Bob Wells)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Make Yourself Comfortable (Bob Merrill) / Ready, Willing and Able (Al Rinker / Floyd Huddleston / Dick Gleason)
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
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 2 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4056-8774-4.
