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Gentlemen, urn, um... To save face and the honor of England, we're going to bring back that old favourite urn, ah... The Battle of Waterloo.

24 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 9, The Battle of Spion Kop classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:24:29 in the radio play.

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[...]

- Oh... By popular request I come back again. Aie!

- All we can do is to wait and see what effect that photograph of a military dinner has on the enemy.

- Meantime - a sound effect.

(Wind up and wolves howling)

- Meantime in Parliament the British Government had written off the Battle of Spion Kop as a dead loss.

- Gentlemen, urn, um... To save face and the honor of England, we're going to bring back that old favourite urn, ah... The Battle of Waterloo.

- Gentlemen, we shall send out immediate notification to the original cast.

- Mon Emperor, wake-up!

- How dare you wake the Emperor Napoleon up in the middle of his retirement.

- Wonderful nouvelle wonderful news...

- Quel news?

- By special request, we have to do an encore of the Battle of Waterloo.

- What... But we lost it.

[...]

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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