Milligan's Ark

by Spike Milligan (Editor), Jack Hobbs (Editor)

Milligan's Ark

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, known as Spike, was a comedian, writer and musician. He was of Irish descent, but spent most of his childhood in India and lived most of his later life in England, moving to Australia after retirement. He is famous for his work in The Goon Show, children's poetry and a series of comical autobiographical novels about his experiences serving in the British Army in WWII. Spike Milligan suffered from bipolar disorder, which led to depression and frequent breakdowns, but he will be remembered as a comic genius. His tombstone reads 'I told you I was ill' in Gaelic.

Reviews

[carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Animal conversation charity book:Written in the mid seventies with contributions from well known British people in the public eye at that time (one particular I won’t mention). Anyway, even then Spike was trying to spread the word about animal conservation and how we need to love animals - wild and domestic. I bought it for my granddaughter and found my myself looking through the drawings too. One review mentions there is ‘racism’ in it. The book is of its time. Spike was raised in India his love of wild animals stems from then

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Picked it up as a curiosity and it was sufficiently weird, but, like, not in a good way?
Had to look up nearly all contributors, since I don’t know British broadcasters from 1971.

[Liz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some nice poetry but there was some racism and a drawing by Jimmy Savile that I couldn't overlook.