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Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Bible According to Spike Milligan, written and read by Spike Milligan.

The Old Testament: but more mad, more merry, more... Milligan!

"And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected."

There have been many interpretations of the Old Testament over the centuries but never one quite like this. Spike Milligan has rewritten, in his own inimitable style, many of the best-known stories of the Old Testament, featuring characters like King "my brain hurts" Solomon, the great oaf of a giant Goliath and the lesser-known crossword clue, Hushai the Archite.

Believers and non-believers alike will enjoy this hilarious re-working, where the jokes, jests and jibes tumble over each other from Chapter One, Verse One until kingdom come.

 Fantasy Humorous Witty Funny Royalty Comedy

Critic reviews

That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man (Stephen Fry)
A totally original comedy writer (Michael Palin)
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal (Terry Wogan)
All stars
Most relevant
I loved it and laughed constantly, I always loved Spike's humour. I wish he were still with us.

Well worth a listen

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Despite what Audible tells you, this is an abridged recording. There are whole passages missing throughout the book. Otherwise, it's a good laugh.

NOTE: This is an abridged recording

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Absolutely love this book been after it for quite some time..Spike Milligan at his best 5 stars ..funny from start to finish just wish pdf available

THE TRUE STORY

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brings bsck many happy nighrs with all new radio thing odd thing only worked with the whol street rpund it
paul connolly

brings back many happy nights with rith the box tk

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Mad as a hatter and at his absolute best. This had me in stitches. Genius.

Spike

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