From the archive: Prince Philip's message to tiddlywinks contestants
Archive film captured the moment a humorous greeting from the Duke of Edinburgh was read, on his behalf, at the start of a celebrity tiddlywinks contest.
The BBC pictures from March 1958 covered a match between the Goons, which included Spike Milligan, and the University of Cambridge.
A message from Prince Philip, the late Queen's consort, expressed his preference for Cambridge to lose and his "incomparable champions, the Goons, to win a resounding and stereophonic victory".
The Goon Show was a popular radio comedy programme, originally broadcast on the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960. Cambridge University won the match by 70 points.
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