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This is a great day for army deserters. The first one has just been launched into space!

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:16 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Quick, stick it up the chimney then... Now up you go.

- Can you reach her?

- Not quite. The ladder's not long enough.

- Don't worry... Just put this giant handy interballistic rocket to the bottom of the ladder, light the fuse, so...

- Ohh, ohhhh!

- What's the matter, Min?

- A man just went past me on a ladder!

- This is a great day for army deserters. The first one has just been launched into space!

- Let's send up Ray Ellington! Come along... come on...

- The scene is the opera house Aldershot. A critical first-night audience are judging the military police solo ballet contest.

- Thank you, thank you, and now for a encore, Lance-Corporal Ninger will dance the solo Pas de Deux from the Constable Ballet Coppelia.

- Sir, sir, stop the contest! Stop the contest, I say!

(Crowd disapproval)

[...]

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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