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He is always well supplied with work by his agents. In fact, his bank balance now stands at four hundred and eighty pounds in bright red letters.

12 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:10:54 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Right, now stick this feather behind your ear and put on this Indian loin cloth.

- Aaah! Ooo! C'mon, who's the joker who put a thistle in it?

- Tell me little Neddie, can you paddle a zinc bathtub?

- Like a native.

- Good! You are going to make the cheapest Atlantic crossing to America ever.

- Not before I've heard Max Geldray play his leather earache and graphite dogbeard!

- Well said.

(crowd applause and cheer)

- He is always well supplied with work by his agents. In fact, his bank balance now stands at four hundred and eighty pounds in bright red letters.

- Now, we return you to the story 'The Lost Colony'.

- Yes, I paddled my zinc bath towards my rightful heritage.

- After a mere thirteen months, I entered the harbour of New York and pulled into the quay.

- I was given an ovation, I still have it on my mantelpiece to this day.

- What Neddie didn't know was an American company, the makers of Filth Muck, the detergent with the lead bubbles, had offered a prize of twenty dollars to the first idiot to cross the Atlantic in a zinc bath dressed as a Red Indian.

[...]

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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