Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 6 November 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 8 November 1955 on the BBC Home Service
Neddie Seagoon, minister without portfolios in Peking, receives word that the Japanese are closing in. He hands over the Embassy funds to Lord Grytpype-Thynne in return for aeroplane transport out of Peking. Count Moriarty agrees to evacuate them on his aeroplane for ten thousand pounds. Seagoon, Major Bloodnok, Count Moriarty, and Eccles escape on the aeroplane, but they crash in the Himalayas. They are rescued from certain death by Bluebottle, who leads them to the hidden utopia of Shangri-La. They are brought before Henry Crun, the Dalai Lama. In Shangri-La people live in eternal youth and tranquillity. Seagoon agrees to take Crun’s place as the spiritual leader. But all is not well with the other members of the rescued party. Moriarty and Grytpype want to leave with a young Shangri-La girl, despite Seagoon’s warning that she will crumble to her true age if she leaves the enchanted valley. In the end, Seagoon lets them go, but vows to stay himself. Eccles says that he will stay, too. On hearing this, Seagoon changes his mind and rushes off after Moriarty.
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