Spike Milligan
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Sep 12, 2026
Alexei SayleHOST
And I thought, what fucking use is that to me?
Diane MorganGUEST
I met Spike Milligan.
Diane MorganGUEST
He was lovely.
Alexei SayleHOST
Oh, was he? He hated me.
Alan DaviesGUEST
I'm very pleased to have lent into humor all my life.
Alan DaviesGUEST
I think when I was younger, finding sitcoms and comedians and comedy and joke books and funny books, you know, Spike Milligan's war memoirs I remember reading when I was about 13 and they're so funny.
Alan DaviesGUEST
And that helped me a lot, I think, when I was younger.
Alan DaviesGUEST
And I think it's a great superpower of human beings to be able to get together and make each other laugh.
John LeckieGUEST
That's all part of it, really, is the goon.
John LeckieGUEST
It's all a bit Spike Milligan, isn't it? Which I think XTC would appreciate.
John LeckieGUEST
You know, there was a great love of 60s corniness of carry-on films and quotes, Thora Heard, all these distant people that you can remember.
John LeckieGUEST
God knows, because they're younger than me and I couldn't remember a lot of the names, but Dave Gregory could recite the whole of Tony Hancock.
JohnHOST
Yeah.
JohnHOST
And on a fun bit, on a more optimistic side of the behind the scenes on this, I mean, again, going back to Roald Dahl's disdain for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he wanted Spike Milligan to play Willy Wonka.
JohnHOST
That's who he was.
JohnHOST
So he was very watchful of this production and who was going to play it.
Ben BakerGUEST
Well, not universal, but certainly, um, uh, it would make sense.
Ben BakerGUEST
It, it's not necessarily The Spike Milligan Show when you look at it.
Tyler AdamsHOST
No.
Tyler AdamsHOST
And, and The Spike Milligan Show isn't a Channel 4 title really, is it? It's, it's Channel 4 little bit-
Ben BakerGUEST
No
Tyler AdamsHOST
... little bit more outré, bit quirkier.
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Ben BakerGUEST
He is a policeman and like a stagehand and stuff like that.
Ben BakerGUEST
He's, yeah, he's, he's in very minor roles, but he ...
Graham Kibble-WhiteHOST
And you've got voiceover man, Peter Tomlinson, who's got these really kind of sparkling tones.
Graham Kibble-WhiteHOST
And we've mentioned the music by Ed Welsh, who I have to say worked a lot with Spike Milligan and also scored the, uh, British Confessions sex films.
Graham Kibble-WhiteHOST
But-
Samira AhmedHOST
Okay, would not have guessed that from this.
Colin PeacockGUEST
Well, he was the very deadpan one of that particular crew, wasn't he? It's a bit like...
Colin PeacockGUEST
Spike Milligan, I think, had a...
MarkHOST
A straight man.
MarkHOST
No, maybe
Colin PeacockGUEST
it was a joke, though.
Colin PeacockGUEST
I don't know.
Colin PeacockGUEST
Spike Milligan always said he wanted a tombstone that said something like, I told you I was ill.
Colin PeacockGUEST
But
Paul HowardGUEST
Yeah, or find ways to fudge.
Paul HowardGUEST
I'm a huge fan of Spike Milligan's cocoon.
Paul HowardGUEST
And I think I read it every couple of years.
Paul HowardGUEST
And for those of you who haven't read it, it's the only novel Spike Milligan ever wrote.
Paul HowardGUEST
And he considered himself Irish, Spike Milligan.
Paul HowardGUEST
He actually took out Irish citizenship before he died.
Paul HowardGUEST
And the book is about the drawing of the border and just how utterly ludicrous an idea it was to think that you could actually just draw a line and tell people this is a different country now.
Steve HollandHOST
Like if you watch some of those early Goons stuff, you can see Monty Python taking so much inspiration from what the Goons did.
Steve HollandHOST
And the Goons were Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Seacombs.
Zak PlucinskiHOST
Oh, cool.
Steve HollandHOST
And they had started off on radio and then they transitioned to TV where Richard Lester joined.
David HepworthGUEST
I've still got it on the DRAM label and just played it endlessly like everybody did.
David HepworthGUEST
I think even in the gossip column of this issue of the NME, it says that Spike Milligan is playing a copy in his dressing room all the time.
David HepworthGUEST
And it became a kind of record that everybody agreed was amazing.
David HepworthGUEST
And it is a fantastic record.
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