Great news for Spike Milligan fans >From BBC 7 Newsletter - Friday 28th March 2008 In February (it was) the opening night of a play called Surviving Spike, at The Theatre Royal, Windsor. It was a play based obviously, on Spike Milligan's life, and centred around his relationship with Norma Farnes, who was his agent, manager and confidante for 36 years. Not an easy job by any stretch of the imagination. On 16th April this year, Spike would have reached the grand old age of 90. So to celebrate the birth of Terence Alan Patrick Sean Milligan on 16th April 1918, we have decided, starting 14th April, to run an entire week of the Goon Show, introduced by Eric Sykes. And to get a glimpse of Spike in more serious mode, you can hear the man himself him recounting an episode from Plain Tales From the Raj, an intimate account of his childhood in colonial India. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listings/index.shtml?today http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/ Incidentally, the current week's schedule beginning yesterday, has some top-class programmes for your listening pleasure. Be sure to tune in for -- This Sceptred Isle [Anna Massey aided by Peter Jeffrey and the late Paul Eddington, narrates historian Christopher Lee's History of the British Isles, with extracts from Winston Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples. Specially written for Radio 4 and first broadcast in 1995, the award winning series was produced by Pete Atkin.] and The People of the British Museum =============== Enjoy! ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India