Spike Milligan has been played on NTS in shows including Mark Leckey, featured first on 23 August 2016. Songs played include The Q5 Piano Theme.

Terrence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 - 27 February 2002) was a renowned Anglo-Irish comic, poet and surrealist.

Widely regarded as the Godfather of British Comedy, he is best known for his work on The Goon Show with Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. Not so well known is that he was an accomplished jazz trumpeter, until old age forced him to give up the instrument.

He toured widely with his shows, made a number of TV series (most notably…