Documentary opens up Spike Milligan’s ‘treasure trove’ of scripts and footage

Exclusive: Musical and children's play are among vast archive explored in upcoming film about comedic genius

A musical and a children's play written by Spike Milligan are among unmade scripts within a vast archive to which film-makers have been given unprecedented access for a forthcoming documentary on the comic genius.

Seb Barfield, the producer-director of Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive, was astonished to find entire shows, sketches and poems among hundreds of papers and reels of footage.