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In "Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan", Norma Farnes has brought together a collection of Milligan's 'ideas', which, as she explains in her affectionate but unsentimental foreword, were those pieces of work which he would begin and then file away, either to be returned to as and when ... Read review
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an invaluable collection of unpublished material from one of Britain's best-loved comedians. 'Box 18' was a file into which the highly prolific Spike would put his writing and drawings as they camp, to him, but which never came to be published before his death. Selected and edited by Norma Fames, Milligan's manager, biographer and lifelong friend, Box 18 draws on previously unseen diaries and letters - from friendly correspondence with Paul McCartney to irate exchanges with the Accounts Department at Harrods - and his stories and drawings for children. Also included are poems and lyrics, Goon Show scripts and photographs from his public and private life. As both an origina
The Last Laugh Review ofBox 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan - Spike Milliganby
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...18', one of Milligan's meticulously-arranged box files in which he kept every scrap of paperwork, both personal and professional.
Included in this posthumously-released anthology are various pages from Spike's appointment diaries, several unfinished (as far as Milligan was concerned) scripts, poems and stories, together with a selection of his drawings, photographs, and letters to friends and figures of authority, among them Princes Charles and ... ...Milligan didn't consider any of Box 18's contents to be ready for public airing, how much of it is up to his usual standard and actually worth publishing. It's a valid question to ask, and indeed, it isn't difficult to see why some of the sketches, for example, never made it beyond his filing system; for the most part, though, the book is vintage Milligan, and on balance, I believe Farnes was right to let his fans have one last laugh. There are some ...
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