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Brilliant! But I'd better not take any chances. I think I'll make a wooden one.

6 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:05:58 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Right. See, I've got forty pounds here... I'll just peel them off. Forty, thirty-nine, thirty-eight. There. Thirty-eight pounds.

- Thank you.

- Now pick a card, don't let me see it, what is it?

- The forty-three of diamonds.

- You lose. Pay pontoons only, 28 pounds. I thank you.

- Now Neddie, here, Neddie, are full scale plans of a ladder.

- These plans are made of paper!

- Yes. If chased by military police, place plans against a wall, climb up, and then fold the plans up after you.

- Brilliant! But I'd better not take any chances. I think I'll make a wooden one.

- Splendid. And here to cover the sound of your carpentry is Max Geldray to play his old Dutch muffled teeth!

- That was Max Geldray who played Standing inside a pair of Trousers.

- You will remember that Neddie has built himself a ladder. Part Two, we find him hiding at the top.

- Hello folks, calling folks. I'm in a deserter's paradise, folks, balanced on top of a secret twenty-foot ladder, in the middle of Piccadilly circus.

- And damned silly you look, too, Mister Seagoon.

[...]

The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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