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: Tom Ronald
Recorded: Sunday 12 January 1958
First UK Broadcast: Saturday 17 September 1994 on BBC Radio 2
Based on 4/24 The Collapse of the British Rail Sandwich System.
Master criminule Bluebottle has destroyed every slice of mustard and cress in the world, causing a shortage that causes havoc to British Railways. Seagoon commissions farmer Henry Crun to grow 6000 acres of mustard and cress in the Amazon. The expedition sets out for South America and there meets the British Ambassador, Major Bloodnok. A tribe of hostile natives thwarts their endeavour. The mustard and cress shortage? It’s still going on.
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