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Oliver Postgate

Apr 12, 1925 - Dec 08, 2008 (83 years old) in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, 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 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time

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Clangers
Narrator (voice)
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The Alchemists of Sound
Self
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Ivor The Engine
Narrator (voice)
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Ivor the Engine
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Noggin the Nog
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Bagpuss
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
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The Complete Bagpuss
Narrator / All Voices
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Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
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The Complete Ivor the Engine
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Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Bagpus (voice)

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