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Making a song and dance of the second world war
The cast of Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall brought a taste of the second world war to Chichester city centre last week.
They were in Chichester to promote the brand-new stage version of Spike Milligan's famous war memoirs which played at Chichester Festival Theatre until Saturday.
The cast, in 1940s soldiers' uniforms, arrived at the Cross in Chichester city centre in a WWII armoured car and performed some of the songs and skits from the show.
The visiting actor-musician cast members, including Sholto Morgan, who plays Spike, sat on top of a Daimler Ferret armoured car and performed wartime songs and jazz for shoppers and visitors.
The Ferret, an armoured scout car with a small machine gun turret,
was driven from the theatre, down the pedestrianised North Street to the city Cross.
The vehicle belongs to military vehicle enthusiast John Brandhuber, from Bognor Regis, who celebrated his 60th birthday with the cast on board his original 1959 Ferret.
It was standard issue in the British Army after WWII, but is very similar to the now-rare Daimler Dingo, with which Spike Milligan would have been familiar in the western desert.
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