Recently there has been a surge of on line interest in the  anarchic radio comedy The Goon Show.
On YouTube there is splendid documentary simply called 'Spike'.
Spike was Terence Alan Milligan. His parents were Irish but he was born in India.
He was 83 when he died in 2002.
In this episode Spike talks to David Freeman about his life in comedy, The Goons, and the mental health problems that dogged his life after he was blown up by a wartime bomb.

Recently there has been a surge of on line interest in the  anarchic radio comedy The Goon Show.
On YouTube there is splendid documentary simply called 'Spike'.
Spike was Terence Alan Milligan. His parents were Irish but he was born in India.
He was 83 when he died in 2002.
In this episode Spike talks to David Freeman about his life in comedy, The Goons, and the mental health problems that dogged his life after he was blown up by a wartime bomb.

Spike Milligan

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