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- Now, tell us, you've been working on this job for ten days or more, what do you think of the idea and its chances?
- Well, you know, I...

12 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 4 Special, The Starlings classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:17:04 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll punch you in the flipping ear 'ole!

- Well, I wonder sir, if you'd like to say a few words to the listeners.

- Don't they get enough chat from you lot?

- Tell me, how long have you been putting the mixture round the ledges of this building?

- Oh, err, about ten days, on and off.

- What do you mean exactly, 'On and Off'?

- Well, some of us keep falling off. Do you? What jolly fun.

- Now, tell us, you've been working on this job for ten days or more, what do you think of the idea and its chances?

- Well, you know, I...

- Err, Thank you. Now, as the workmen take down the last of the scaffolding, I see that the ceremony in the square below us is about to begin. So, over to Richard Dimbleby

- Here, in the Great Square of Trafalgar, which, as we all know, takes its name from the great underground railway that runs directly beneath its ancient flagstones...

- Here all is in readiness for the great explodable bird mixture inauguration.

- To my right rises the great wooden oak platform from which this solemn ceremony will be perfumed.

- The entire Square is a great mass of banners. Banners from the great Society of Pest Control, all waiting to see the result of this experiment.

[...]

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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