Oliver Postgate, the English animator, puppeteer and writer, died earlier this month, a fact of which I have only just become aware.
Born in 1925 he died on 8 December 2008. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 poll, Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
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Sunday, 28 December 2008
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