History Radio / TheVeryWorldOfMiltonJones

Tropes used in these programs:

* WaxingLyrical: A common joke, as well as using snippets from songs as dialogue. For example, one episode has Milton interviewing Music/SamCooke for a job as a teacher; all of Cooke's responses are lines from "Wonderful World ([Don't Know Much About History)".

* WaxingLyrical: A common joke, as well as using snippets from songs as dialogue. For example, one episode has Milton interviewing Sam Cooke for a job as a teacher; all of Cooke's responses are lines from "Wonderful World ([Don't Know Much About History)".

* OverprotectiveDad: The heart of the plot of "Explorer".

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: One episode involves [[spoiler:Prince Charles]] plotting to cure all the world's illnesses by putting a drop of an extremely potent medicine into the ocean, thus (by the laws of homeopathy) making it infinitely diluted and infinitely powerful. In fact, 'real' homeopathic solutions are diluted by ''considerably'' more than 'one drop in all the water on Earth'.
* BrickJoke: many, usually forming the resolution of the progamme.

* ICouldaBeenAContender: in ''Another Case'', it always turns out that Anton was a high-flyer in whatever field Milton was involved in, but had to abandon his dreams due to some unfortunate mishap (the anecdotes where he explains this mishaps are always introduced by a piece of melancholy harp music, and the audience are beginning to catch on to this)
* ImagineSpot: one of the purposes of the guardian angel is to show Milton what life would be like under some strange circumstance. For example, one episode has Milton pondering what it would be like to be a Jehovah's Witness in the Middle Ages."

* OnTheMoney: in "Jockey", Milton's father's donkey sanctuary will be shut down if he doesn't find £137 million. This is coincidentally exactly the amount Milton won in a race before.

* OverprotectiveDad: the heart of the plot of "Explorer".

* ProductPlacement: parodied. Milton's father (or, at least, one of them) was a donkey ride operator on Blackpool Beach.

* ShoutOut: to various [[Creator/TheBBC Radio Four]] bedfellows, including ''Radio/TheArchers'' and ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs''.

* TakeThat: against, among others, Wandsworth and Liverpool, Music/ThePolice, Phys Ed teachers, and the Welsh rugby team.

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat

* WaxingLyrical: A common joke, as well as using snippets from songs as dialogue. For example, one episode has Milton interviewing Sam Cooke for a job as a teacher; all of Cooke's responses are lines from "Wonderful World ([[RefrainFromAssuming Don't Know Much About History]])".

* ImagineSpot: one of the purposes of the guardian angel is to show Milton what life would be like under some strange circumstance. For example, one episode has Milton pondering what it would be like to be a Jehovah's Witness in the Middle Ages.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Sir Alan 'Mill-AY' Millet in the "Explorer" episode of ''Another Case''. Milton mocks this for the rest of the episode: "...and then the Bay of Biscay - sorry, Biscuit..."

* [[YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever Artistic License- Alternative Medicine]]: One episode involves [[spoiler:Prince Charles]] plotting to cure all the world's illnesses by putting a drop of an extremely potent medicine into the ocean, thus (by the laws of homeopathy) making it infinitely diluted and infinitely powerful. In fact, 'real' homeopathic solutions are diluted by ''considerably'' more than 'one drop in all the water on Earth'.

** In an episode where Milton is a journalist, [[TopGear Jeremy Clarkson]] gets invited onto Milton's [[LiteralMinded "hard-hitting"]] TV show.

* [[{{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}} It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY]]: Sir Alan 'Mill-AY' Millet in the "Explorer" episode of ''Another Case''. Milton mocks this for the rest of the episode: "...and then the Bay of Biscay - sorry, Biscuit..."

* ShoutOut: to various [[Creator/TheBBC Radio Four]] bedfellows, including ''TheArchers'' and ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs''.

* SoundToScreenAdaptation: ''Milton Jones's House of Rooms'' on ChannelFour, based loosely on ''The House of Milton Jones''.

* TakeThat: against, among others, Wandsworth and Liverpool, ThePolice, Phys Ed teachers, and the Welsh rugby team.

* CloudCuckooLander: Russell Howard considers Milton one of these on ''MockTheWeek''.

* ShoutOut: to various [[TheBBC Radio Four]] bedfellows, including ''TheArchers'' and ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs''.

''The Very World of Milton Jones'' is a British {{radio}} series starring "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Britain's funniest Milton]]", Creator/Milton Jones. Each show begins with Milton's [[OnceAnEpisode life flashing before his eyes]] due to a near-death experience; his guardian angel comes down to visit him, and together they discuss his life. At the end, the angel leaves him, but by some staggering coincidence - usually relating to something mentioned earlier in the episode - he survives.

''The Very World of Milton Jones'' is a British {{radio}} series starring "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Britain's funniest Milton]]", {{Milton Jones}}. Each show begins with Milton's [[OnceAnEpisode life flashing before his eyes]] due to a near-death experience; his guardian angel comes down to visit him, and together they discuss his life. At the end, the angel leaves him, but by some staggering coincidence - usually relating to something mentioned earlier in the episode - he survives.

''The Very World of Milton Jones'' is a British {{radio}} series starring "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Britain's funniest Milton]]", Milton Jones. Each show begins with Milton's [[OnceAnEpisode life flashing before his eyes]] due to a near-death experience; his guardian angel comes down to visit him, and together they discuss his life. At the end, the angel leaves him, but by some staggering coincidence - usually relating to something mentioned earlier in the episode - he survives.

* ''ForgottenBirthday'': In Another Case Of Milton Jones, Milton makes a throwaway mention of the entire nation of Britain pretending to forget the Queen's official birthday. Despite this, a later episode shows that they forget his birthday every year.

Milton Jones has done some other series as well. ''Another Case of Milton Jones'' featured Milton's life in various jobs, including chessmaster (featuring the Russian university town of Untergrad), architect and mayor of London ("I discovered there was a [[TheTube secret network of tunnels under the city]]. Why hadn't I been told of this earlier?"). ''The House Of Milton Jones'' was a ''slightly'' more conventional DomCom. And on occasion he pops up as a comic elsewhere.

Not to be confused with the other [[JohnMilton Milton]].

* ''ForgottenBirthday'': In Another Case Of Milton Jones, Milton makes a throwaway mention of the entire nation of Britain pretending to forget the Queen's official birthday. Despite this, a later episode shows that they forget his birthday every year.

* SoundToScreenAdaptation: ''Milton Jones's House of Rooms'' on ChannelFour, based loosely on ''The House of Milton Jones;;.

** Anton's MadLibsCatchphrase, used OnceAnEpisode in ''Another Case...'', is "No, I can never X again. [[TragicBackstoryFlashback You see...]]"

** Anton's catchphrase, used OnceAnEpisode in ''Another Case...'', is "No, I can never X again. You see..."