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The Starlings

London is besieged by birds! Special recording with no audience or orchestra. Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From 1954.

London is completely besieged by 30 million roosting starlings in Trafalgar Square.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Special recording with no audience or orchestra.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
Announcer: Andrew Simmons

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1954.

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