MILLIGAN, Spike

MILLIGAN, Spike
   Working name of Indian-born Irish writer and comic Terence Alan Milligan (1918-), who first became famous for his central role as the author and one of the stars of the long series of Goon Show programmes on BBC Radio in the 1950s. Many of his books, beginning with his first, Silly Verse for Kids (coll 1959 chap), have fantasy content, as do his two novels, Puckoon(1963) and The Looney: An Irish Fantasy (1987). He is of direct sf interest for a play, The Bedsitting Room (1970) with John Antrobus (1933-), which initially treats a nuclear HOLOCAUST in terms of surreal spoof,though by the final act the few survivors are engaging in cannibalism. The original play was filmed as The BED-SITTING ROOM in 1969.
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