But beyond The Goons and more left-field TV shows, Milligan’s seven volumes of Second World War memoirs tapped into a mass readership who lapped up his scatter-gun array of anecdotes, asides and comic cuts from across the barricades.
Spike Milligan was a comic genius feted both by disaffected Royals and student surrealists.
But beyond The Goons and more left-field TV shows, Milligan’s seven volumes of Second World War memoirs tapped into a mass readership who lapped up his scatter-gun array of anecdotes, asides and comic cuts from across the barricades.