While Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers work on what will become one of the most internationally renowned radio comedies - 'The Goon Show' - head writer & performer Spike finds himself pushing the envelope and testing the BBC's patience!

Flanked by his fellow Goons and bolstered by their sound assistant Janet, Spike takes his haunted past and morphs it into the future of British comedy. The Second World War may be over, but his war with the BBC & himself has just begun ...

Comedy veterans Ian Hislop and Nick Newman bring this new look into the working life of British-Irish actor and comedian Spike Milligan.