Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with George Chisholm
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan
Producer: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 19 January 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 27 January 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Read Graeme Foot’s commentary on this episode.
The title comes from a joke in the first line. The show is really a story called My Heart’s in the Highlands. Laird Red Hairy McBurk leaves his fortune to the first man to play the bagpipes at the South Pole. Grytpype and Moriarty know of only one man with enough fat on him to succeed—Neddie Seagoon. They give Ned a series of envelopes with instructions on how to complete the task. He buys a South Pole expedition and set of bagpipes from Min and Henry and proceeds to the Falkland Islands. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, Major Bloodnok has Lalkaka and Banerjee try to thaw out his frozen bagpipes but they set them on fire instead. Eccles and Bluebottle arrive in a fire engine and inform Bloodnok he’s in the Sahara Desert – they were led astray by a compass from a cheap Christmas cracker. Seagoon’s expedition sets off for the South Pole on an ice floe. They run into Bloodnok and his party. Everyone camps for the night two miles from the Pole. During the night, a crack in the ice opens up and the sledge with the bagpipes fell in. But Eccles and Bluebottle have a set of bagpipes. At the Pole there is a big fight, and eventually the sound of bagpipes is heard over the roar of a blizzard. One of them made it to the Pole and played the bagpipes, but because of the blizzard, Grytpype can’t make out who it is. Tune in next week for the results.
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