Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with A. E. Matthews
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 16 March 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 17 March on the BBC Home Service
This show was inspired by a real life row that A. E. Matthews was having with his local council about a concrete lamp post they wanted to put outside his house
The Bushey Spon Council discuss the building of a concrete lamp-post. Having decided to paint it a non-sinful colour, they set about finding a lamp-post designer. When Greenslade’s two brothers, a Cornish homicidal maniac and Mad Dan Eccles, prove unsuitable, they advertise for a man. Grytpype and Moriarty answer the advertisement. Willium digs the lamp-post hole while Minnie and Henry, caretakers of the house beside it, look on. They find out that their master is coming home. Meanwhile Seagoon buys a lamp-post from Bloodnok’s factory in Rhodesia. The contract for putting up the lamp-post goes to India. Lalkaka and Banerjee put it up while Crun goes into a fit of jealous rage when he discovers Min watching men putting up the lamp-post. The master, A. E. Matthews, arrives, but he refuses to pay any attention to the script. The last five minutes are total chaos and ad-libbed by all concerned.
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