"The Biggest Aspidistra in the World" is a comic song first recorded by English singer Gracie Fields in November 1938, for inclusion in the film Keep Smiling. The song was written by Tommie Connor and Jimmy Harper (aka James S. Hancock), co-credited to music publisher Will Haines, and the recording was arranged by . The song inspired the name of the Aspidistra radio transmitter, at its time the most powerful broadcast transmitter in the world, built in 1942 near Crowborough in Sussex to beam signals into Europe during the Second World War.