AuthorSpike Milligan
NarratorSpike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 4
Duration8h 34m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherPenguin
VersionUnabridged
A voice is calling across the land, "Bombardier Milligan." "Bombadier Milligan is dead," I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, "Then he's going to miss his breakfast." The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured'). After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from which he soon recovers ('I'm ready to be killed again'), our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog ('Mussolini's revenge?') before forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns ('We're getting near civilisation'), where matters suddenly take a dark turn ('I was not really me any more')...
Spike Milligan War Memoirs 3: Monty
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 3
Duration 2h 5m
'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.' 'This could mean war...' The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced-boredom ('Christ, I...
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Spike Milligan War Memoirs Book 5: Where Have All the Bullets Gone?
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 5
Duration 5h 25m
'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, "I think we've got grounds for a rent rebate."' The fifth volume of Spike Milligan's unsurpassed account of life as a Bombardier in World War Two sees...
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The Bible According To Spike Milligan
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
Duration 2h 55m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Bible According to Spike Milligan, written and read by Spike Milligan. The Old Testament: but more mad, more merry, more... Milligan! "And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected....
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Goon Show Classics Volume 1 (vintage Beeb)
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe star in two classic BBC Radio episodes, The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea and The Histories of Pliny the Elder. The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea: No fewer than 38 Batter Puddings have been hurled at Minnie Bannister, the world famous poker player. (Give her a good...
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Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 10
Duration 2h 2m
Featuring: The White Box of Great Bardfield, Tales of Montmartre, The Great Bank Robbery and The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons. Anarchic, ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensures the popularity of S...
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Spike Milligan War Memoirs Book 2: 'rommel?' 'gunner Who?'
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 2
Duration 4h 6m
'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.' 'That's how I got in, sir.' 'Didn't we all.' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa-eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loiteri...
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Spike Milligan War Memories 6: Goodbye Soldier
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 6
Duration 8h 27m
'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.' 'I'm Spike, sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.' 'Yeser, I know.' The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio-a 'Co...
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Spike Milligan War Memoirs 1: Adolf Hitler
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 1
Duration 3h 24m
'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train...' In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been som...
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Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 28
Duration 2h 2m
Four more classic episodes starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. More surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. Goon but not forgotten! In these episodes, Neddie attempts to swim across the Regent's Park Canal with the help of a bottle of green liquid, the Russians force a satellite into the ionosphere (fi...
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Spike Milligan War Memories Book 7: Peace Work
Author: Spike Milligan
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 7
Duration 7h 35m
'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away...' The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy...but to what? Aside from shooting large, inaccurate guns at Germans, all he has done for five long years is blow a trumpet, tell r...
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