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: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 9 February 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 10 February 1958 on the BBC Home Service
It is 1882. Sterling is in danger – it’s dropped from F-sharp to E-flat and must be saved in the key of G. Ned is sent off to warn Min and Henry, the occupants of the Eddystone Lighthouse. There, Ned reveals his plan to save sterling by auctioning off the equator in the key of E-flat. Grytpype sends a letter to the Postmaster General informing him of the attempt at an illegal raffle for the equator, and offers to reveal the organiser for certain monies. Ned attempts to get to the equator travelling by Eccles the train and then by Bloodnok’s ship. He gets permission to raffle the equator provided that it’s done in the key of G-sharp. Grytpype hires Lalkaka and Banerjee to make an imitation equator that would fool any linesman. Seagoon captures the imitation equator and sets off for England on a raft. The plot peters out after an auction and the show ends on a weak joke. Greenslade gives the cast a fifty yards start and then makes the final announcement while being pummelled by blows from a disgruntled crowd.
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