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Unto Us show
Notes: “Wimpole Street” is a street in London where offices of high-priced private medical specialists are located. “Queens Counsel,” as viewers of the wonderful Rumpole Series on PBS have learned, refers to senior members of the Bar. And Danny La Rue was a very funny and popular female impersonator.
Somewhere at some […]

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Terence Alan Milligan, known as ‘Spike’ (1918-2002) dedicated his life to making people laugh, through his performances on radio and television, through his poems and memoirs, and often just by being himself: in a BBC poll in 1999 he was voted “the funniest person of the last 1,000 years.” Spike had a colourful life: he […]

Unto Us show
Notes: “Wimpole Street” is a street in London where offices of high-priced private medical specialists are located. “Queens Counsel,” as viewers of the wonderful Rumpole Series on PBS have learned, refers to senior members of the Bar. And Danny La Rue was a very funny and popular female impersonator.
Somewhere at some […]

Have you ever had a Milligan Moment?
For me, Spike was a marvel of the hilarious nonsensical, delighting in creating crazy word pictures conjured up with the assistance of the double meanings of words, a thing that most small children love …
In the midst of an hilarious moment, have you ever thought “Spike would have loved […]