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I Told You I Was Ill - the Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan

on BBC Two England

Eddie Izzard, Eric Sykes, Joanna Lumley and Michael Palin grace a portrait of the one-time Goon, who died in 2002. Access to family movies, memories and homes helps reveal the character of the comedy great through the people and places he loved.
(Repeated on Christmas Day at 12.05am)
(First shown on BBC4)
The Unseen Spike Milligan is Christmas Eve at 9pm on Channel 4, and Eddie Izzard's Christmas Cabaret Boxing Day at 9pm on Radio 2

Contributors

Interviewee:
Eddie Izzard
Interviewee:
Eric Sykes
Interviewee:
Joanna Lumley
Interviewee:
Michael Palin
Director:
Cathy Henkel

BBC Two England

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