Oliver Postgate

About the artist

Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. 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

Top songs

1. Bagpuss - Ship in a Bottle.1 - The Complete Bagpuss
2. Desert Island Discs
3. Bagpuss
4. Elastic Planet - S01 - E03 - The Shape
5. Oliver Postgate on the Russell Brand radio show
6. Elastic Planet - S01 - E01 - The Babies
7. Bagpuss - Ship in a Bottle.2 - The Complete Bagpuss
8. Elastic Planet - S01 - E02 - The Train
9. Elastic Planet - S01 - E04 - The Life
10. Elastic Planet - S01 - E06 - The Travel

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