'Watergoon' tapes

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33455, 9 February 1974, Page 13

'Watergoon' tapes

1 iV.Z. I'l. >s t»Mi—Cepyrigntl LONDON, leb S Two of the Goons are to team up again — tn ‘The Watergoon Affair" Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan will make a special [programme about President | Nixon and the Watergate i tapes for a new commercial radio station. Capital Radio jin London. ; The show will star one of the most famous of the 'characters from the Goon I show, Eccles. “It will not be a Goon ishow as such, although (Eccles is back.” said the [show’s producer, Mr Peter [Eton. "Harry Secombe will (not be taking part, as there is really nothing in it lor (him to do.” Mr Eton said the show, [most of which was being Written by Milligan, would be taped and later broadcast in Australia, New Zealand, the United Slates, and Canada. i I<rpan protexlfi i Japan has tiled a protest •.with i he Soviet Union against dan alleged violation of Japan ese air space by a Soviet aircraft. An unspecified Soviet [aircraft flew at a speed of )400 nautical miles al an alti Jtude of 1600 ft over Rebun i(lsland oft the northern tip of [Hokkaido, yesterdav morn ding, the Japanese Foreign I Ministrv said.—Tokvo, Feb. 18.