12 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 4 Special, The Starlings classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:21:38 in the radio play.
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- The Guard of the Tender Plumage Haddackurs presents arms and we all stand to attention for the anthem of the great Bird Pest Control.
(Trumpet Fanfare sings Anthem of the Great Bird Pest Control)
- What a lovely tune that is, from the pen of the marcher of the Archer Street roles.
- And now, yes, now, here comes the Duchess Boiledusspudswell followed by the venerable City Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Mothers-In-Laws and all the other great traditional hangers-on.
- Now the Duchess approaches the great charcoal and balsa staircase that leads up to the rostrum, and at the same time leads down again.
- She mounts the great steps, her great cape of Norton Weevil squadling across the ancient planges of the high Grantfordlood.
- And with that the Herald sounds the Thurk Voluntary, the Voluntary so well beloved by the Swahili dust-group of Westminster.
- And now she reaches the great gold and bronze microphone to make her declaration.
- But first the master of the rolls and leather goods pledges his allegiance, also the quanti-denorum, so let us listen to it.
- My lords, ladies and...
- He appears to be having trouble with the great microphone of state, the same used ever since 1672, hand beaten and foot slapped, gold and silver surmounted by 2 Burmese cherubs, fashioned by the great sculptor Ben Venuto Selinae and his brother Fred.
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