nooooooooo .....
As a nipper - we were called nippers in those days - I used to stand
before the radio and listen to all the BBC output of comedy, plays
and stories. Great days, great days.
Did they ever make to CD before they were wiped? The BBC issued a lot
of CDs according to Amazon.
I bet they've not managed to wipe rubbish like the Clithero Kid.
Roger
On 2/22/07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This will only interest a few on PoetryEtc
>
> ... eighty of the first hundred Goon Show tapes have been wiped: "The Saga of
> HMS Aldgate", "Operation Bagpipes", and "The Building of Britain's First Atomic
> Cannon", all gone into the dark, unless some Goonophile in Wellington or
> Ouagadougou has a tape.
>
> - from a review in the current TLS.
>
> M, never a taper of BBC comedy
>
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