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 and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 17 March 1957
First Broadcast: Thursday 21 March 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Ned Seagoon is trying to raffle a boa constrictor. He is also building a new ring road around Birmingham, and blows up a brick wall that’s in the way of the construction. It turns out the wall was the home of those destitute con artists, Grytpype and Moriarty. They convince Neddie that the City Treasurer’s safe also lies in the path of the road, and that the Treasurer has given permission for it to be blown up, provided that it’s done in secret. That night, Seagoon meets Eccles, the dynamite expert. Seagoon goes in to set the dynamite while Eccles sings to cover the noise of the explosion. Willium tries to arrest Eccles for singing without a licence. Eccles does have a licence – a dog licence, because they’re cheaper than singing licences. Since the licence only allows Eccles to bark and howl, he does so, whereupon he’s captured by the dog catcher. Grytpype and Moriarty offer to watch the safe explosion while Seagoon retrieves Eccles. In this way they get Birmingham’s massive wealth – fourpence. Neddie returns to find out he’s an accessory to a robbery – his career is ruined. Ned goes to Scotland Yard and confesses to his part in the robbery. The safe is found in a field in Kent. The police blow the door off the safe and find Moriarty and Grytpype inside, with Birmingham’s fourpence. The ring road goes through.
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