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: Roy Speer
Recorded: Sunday 10 November 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 11 November 1957 on the BBC Home Service
India, 1857. The natives are revolting (although some of them seem to be nice chaps) because they’ve heard that the British use banana skins to grease their rifles, and the banana is a sacred animal. The Red Fort, headquarters of the Red Bladder, leader of the Sepoy revolt, is the key to India. Seagoon is sent out to get the inside leg measurements of the key to the fort. Disguised as Indian GPO servicemen, they gain entry to the fort, remove the door, and take it back to the British camp. There Lalkaka and Banerjee find that their newly-made key won’t fit the door, but Flowerdew unlocks it with a hairpin. When the door is opened, the Red Bladder seizes Major Bloodnok and closes it again. They must return the door to the Red Fort so that they can liberate Bloodnok. When Bloodnok refuses to sign over India, the Red Bladder has him shot by firing squad. Will Seagoon arrive in time to rescue him? Too late. But it’s all in the mind, you know.
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