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 24 March 1957
First Broadcast: Thursday 28 March 1957 on the BBC Home Service
It is XLII BC. Julius Caesar invades Britain. The Britons think instead that he’s challenged them to a football match. The result: Romans 900, England 3. War stopped play. Caesar conquers England. Britannicus Bloodnokus buys his freedom by selling Bluebottlus and Ecculus into slavery. They are forced to row a slave galley to Ostia, along with the other slaves, Flowerdew and Caractacus Seagoon. They’re bought by Lew as fodder for the Colosseum. Escaping from prison, they encounter Willium Hannibal, a Battersea slave who tends the elephants at the Colosseum. He leads them to Spartacus, the escaped galdiola, who is in hiding in the crater of Vesuvius. Spartacus turns out to be Bloodnokus, who’s fallen out with Caesar. Just as they think they’re safe, Vesuvius erupts.
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