The Man Who Invented The Daleks (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
‘I auditioned as a stand-up comic, and I failed time and time again. Somebody told me, “The jokes are very good; it’s you who’s not funny.” That was hurtful, but then I figured I had to make a living.’ So he concentrated on writing, and was still getting nowhere when his fairy godmother appeared in the improbable guise of a Goon, as detailed by the Guardian in a 1966 interview: ‘His first break was an interview with Spike Milligan. He arrived so worn and woebegone that Milligan said, “You look terrible!” wrote out a cheque for £10, and told him to go away and try to write a script for The Goon Show. He did. Some of it, at least, was used on the air, and Milligan took him on as a writer.’ Although there is no evidence of Nation’s work ever being used in a broadcast edition of The Goon Show, much of the rest of this was true, insofar as it went. Harry Greene remembered him turning up backstage at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in January 1955 during a famous production of Richard II with Harry H.
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