Spike Milligan on Room 101

[-+Buzby+-]

I really need someone's help!

I am sure that someone out there must be able to help. I need to know Spike Milligan's reasons for putting Portsmouth into Room 101!

I am a junior school teacher in the city and am going to be getting my children to write persuasively about why Portsmouth is a great place to live. I thought Spike's 'attack' would be perfect to motivate them.

Unfortunately, all my trawling through the web has turned up is the fact that he was on the programme (which I already knew) and that he once advertised himself as Spike "I hate Portsmouth" Milligan for a show he did in Portsmouth.

Does anyone have any more information? What would be great would be a copy of the actual programme that I could show the children. I have approached the BBC for this but they charge �195 + VAT!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[jenstar]

I think the main reason was that he once performed there and went down really badly. I don't think there was much more to it than that.

Portsmouth isn't a great place to live anyway, unless for some reason you like being watched on CCTV all the time just on the offchance that you might be a bit naughty.

[gammaray]

Are you sure the BBC charge �195 for the episode? I recently bought an episode of Coronation Street from Granada and it only cost me �15.

[gammaray]

There was no VAT either!

[gary baldy]

I dont know what your deadline is but room 101 is on almost constant rotation on uktv gold.
Keep checking on

http://www.tvgenius.co.uk/

to see if the Milligan episode turns up and get someone to tape it perhaps?

[curiosity]

Don't know about the Spike Milligan thing, but have you looked at Portsmouth on The Knowhere guide at knowhere.co.uk, there'll no doubt be something on there to get an argument going.

[-+Buzby+-]

Many thanks for all of the suggestions and ideas. Particularly intrigued by the disparity between BBC and Granada's fees for programme licenses - don't we pay the BBC enough through our license fees?!

I taught the lesson today without the clip and gave them a letter supposedly from a disgruntled tourist - it was a great way to air some of my gripes about the city!

Thanks again,