John Antrobus obituary

Playwright and screenwriter who teamed up with Spike Milligan to work on The Goon Show and The Bed-Sitting RoomJohn Antrobus, who has died aged 92, was just 21 when in 1955 he joined the writers’ cooperative Associated London Scripts. Based in an office above a greengrocer’s shop in Shepherd’s Bush, it housed a cradle of talent shaking up postwar television and radio comedy.Newly out of army officer training at Sandhurst, with a father who was a regimental sergeant-major and ar