I started listening to the famed CBC Radio Comedy series on Oct. 30th. And finished today, December 3rd.
That’s 45.6hrs of uninterrupted audio.
Wow.
What a fantastic show. I’m not sure what to play on my iPod any more. Anything else will be a let down.
My best memories from the original series had to do with the Legacies of Newfoundland’s Colonial Misadventure: Oougubomban Free State, a former African colony.
… Newfoundlanders are largely ignorant of the plight of our former colonial subjects, not least because our school system continues to suppress the ugly story of Newfoundland’s single, ill-advised colonial enterprise.
Our involvement in Oougubomba dates from 1927, when the British Prime Minister requested that the new Dominion of Newfoundland send troops to the Bomba region to put down tribal conflict that was threatening the interests of English and Ontarian betel-nut planters. Newfoundland’s then foreign secretary, Sir Peyton Osbourne, eager to prove that the new country had “a spot of vim”, and trying to divert public attention from the Furlong’s Confections corruption scandal that was rocking the Monroe government, sent the 4th King’s Own Jowls and Cavalancers Light up the River Bomba. …
read more – on The Great Eastern
It’s astonishing how little we know about Newfoundland history.
The Great Eastern was created and written by Mack Furlong, Ed Riche and Steve Palmer, and produced by Glen Tilley. This same team did a sequel …
Sunny Days and Nights:
… Paul Moth — out of a job as Great Eastern host and desperate for work — as interim host of cottage-country radio program on a CBC affiliate somewhere in Canada. …
I’ve downloaded those episodes.
Rick McCharles 
Congrats, Ricky. I envy you. I’m only up to episode 8 and loving every minute of it. The Great Eastern was the best satire to ever come out of this country and that’s really saying something. So, of the 80-odd episodes, what was your favorite plot line other than the famed Ougoobomba story?
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Wow indeed. http://gporter.net/great/ is fantastic and I have been waiting for this for so long. I had no idea I had missed so many episodes.
You wondered what could possibly go on your ipod next. I have to recommend BBC’s “At Home with the Snails”. While its nothing like The Greased Stern, I think it shares a similar demented twist. If not that, at the very least, it was the first thing on radio that made me laugh as hard as The Great Eastern. Only 8 episodes, I recorded mine off of BBC7 which rebroadcasts it from time to time.
THANKS.
I will look for Snails.