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 4 November 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 14 February 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Because the show parodies a revolution, the scheduled broadcast (8 November 1956) was postponed due to the Hungarian uprising which was taking place at the time.
Grytpype-Thynne, head of the Battersea Labour Exchange, introduces Moriarty, Minister Extraordinary to the South Pacific Republic of Yakabaku, to Neddie Seagoon. Moriarty offers the job of President of Yakabaku to Neddie. On arrival in Yakabaku, the glorious Yakabakuan National Anthem (the highlight of the show) is played for the first time. Neddie finds that there’s a revolution in progress and that he’s being shot at. He presents his credentials to Major Bloodnok, the British Ambassador. It being five o’clock, Seagoon assembles the Imperial Army, which consists of Eccles and Bluebottle, to clock off for the night. Bloodnok reveals the sinister plot to assassinate Seagoon and take his wages. Neddie flees the Presidential Palace, but accepts the offer from the rebels to sleep in their prison free of charge. The next morning, as Grytpype and Moriarty prepare him for execution, Seagoon as his last request asks that they play the glorious Yakabakuan National Anthem again. While they are all standing at attention, Neddie makes good his escape.
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