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 John Antrobus
Producer: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 23 March 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 24 March on the BBC Home Service
Parliament is debating the replacement of the leather statue of King James II in Trafalgar Square with a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh made of compressed tobacco. Grytpype-Thynne, owner of the Houses of Parliament, invokes the Rent Act to evict the Members. They try to hold a session in Hyde Park, but are arrested for loitering with intent to govern. Fortunately, the Minister of Transport makes a number 138 tram available and the statue debate resumes there, once the Chancellor of the Exchequer purchases 533 tickets to Trafalgar Square. But Eccles is on the private tram, and he turns out to have measles. Parliament ends up in hospital. Comes the time of the unveiling of the statue, which has been delivered by the transport company of Lalkaka and Banerjee. Again they are found by constable Willium and forced to move along. Grytpype takes pity on the homeless Government and agrees to return the Houses of Parliament in return for the uncooked portions of England.
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