Could you spell it?

Here is my favourite sequence (right now - haven't heard nearly all shows there are). It's in The Affair of the Lone Banana (series 5, episode 5). Some five minutes into the show, Neddie is at a shipping office in order to get a ticket to South America...

Henry	...Must have the documents. Ymnbnkhmn, now, what's all this about? Oh yes, yes. Your name?
Seagoon	Neddie Pugh Seagoon.
Henry	N E D D I E... Neddie - what was next?
Seagoon	Neddie Pugh Seagoon.
Henry	Pugh, P H E W.
Seagoon	No no no, it's pronounced Phew but it's spelt PUGH.
Henry	PUGH, PUGH yes, P U G H - there - Neddie Pugh, Seagoon wasn't it?
Seagoon	Yes... Seagoon S E A G O O N.
Henry	Could you spell it?
Seagoon	Certainly - S E A G O O N.
Henry	Seagoon... S E A er - mnkk - mnkk [Goes to sleep]
Seagoon	G O O N - Seagoon.
Henry	O O N - ahhh yes, good, yes, yes, good, good - there, the full name. Now - address?
Seagoon	No fixed abode.
Henry	No... F I X E D fixed... A B... A B...
Seagoon	A B O D E.
Henry	O D E... There we are - No fixed abode - What number?
Seagoon	29A!
Henry	29A... Twenty nine... A... District?
Seagoon	London, SW 2.
Henry	L O N D O N - South West E S T... Two, wasn't it?
Seagoon	Yes, two.
Henry	T W... No good, I'd better get a pencil and paper and write all this down.

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