Spike Milligan

1Scene 1 A deserted beach somewhere in the English Channel. Heavy sea mist. Occasional call of a seagull. Sound of fog horns, and throb of a ship's engine. An anchor is dropped. Sound of Pakistani voices tall

HOMEIndeed, we won the war, but I lost five precious years. I was to mourn and still do, the physical break-up of my family; it was a sort of time-warp Belsen. As my ship left Naples harbour - it was the cool end of autumn - the year 1946; time, like the ship, was slipping away, an azure twilight...