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: John Browell
Recorded: Sunday 28 December 1958
First Broadcast : Monday 29 December 1958 on the BBC Home Service
It is 1907 and the South African war has broken out. Bloodnok receives an intelligence report that the people attacking them are the enemy. Eccles arrives and is tricked into taking Bloodnok’s place in the front lines at the battle of Spion Kop. At dawn, as the battle is about to start, Moriarty is selling lucky charms to the soldiers. Back in England, the Battle of Spion Kop has received very bad press notices. Seagoon suggests that the reason it has flopped is that there isn’t one decent song in the whole battle. Minnie writes a stirring battle song with spoon accompaniment. The battle songs arrive in Africa and the British troops, spoons at the ready, attack. But the songs aren’t bullet-proof and they’re forced to retreat to the South Pole. Parliament have written off the Battle of Spion Kop as a dead loss. To save the honour of England, they plan a revival of that old favourite, the Battle of Waterloo. Moriarty is cast as Napoleon and Eccles as Wellington. With Eccles as Wellington, the French win Waterloo.
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