Oliver Postgate who entertained me as a school then college student and a young teacher, has died. I am sure nobody in the UK has missed this news. Strangley - well perhaps not after my initial "oh, thats sad" - I immediately smiled as I remembered my favourites "The Clangers".
Their little knitted bodies and their perfectly understandable "whistles" with expressions - ears and noses can say the most wonderful things!I thoroughly enjoyed them.
Then I remembered Noggin the Nog - that was at Secondary school. So very clever!
Now I saw very little TV at college itself - little time but The Clangers!
a lovely obituary here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/09/oliver-postgate-bagpuss
pics here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2008/dec/09/oliver-postgate-bagpuss-clangers-ivor-the-engine?picture=340522087
A UTUBE tribute here
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI
That was the very first then came
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pTcStBUW2Ao
I'd forgotten Pingwings!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JwL9DA84Wus
Bagpuss came much later to my notice than the TV series.There is a small Bagpuss sitting in my car keeping an eye on me when I drive!
They all make me smile! with a little tear in the corner of my eye!
Thank you Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
I will edit this later so the links click through but I have to go now!
2 comments:
I felt the same. I loved the Clangers, was obsessed by them as a child and whistled all the time in their "clanger language". I'm sure Oliver Postgate will never be forgotten by the children who watched his programmes. Jane
I felt the same. I loved the Clangers, was obsessed by them as a child and whistled all the time in their "clanger language". I'm sure Oliver Postgate will never be forgotten by the children who watched his programmes. Jane
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