Oliver Postgate's death in December 2008 was greeted with great sadness. For over forty years his name was synonymous with the best in children's television - Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, The Pogles, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings. Oliver wrote and narrated the stories, while Peter Firmin illustrated the characters and made the puppets. Their classic films are still loved by viewers of all ages.
In this delicious autobiography Oliver Postgate describes how he came to create his stories and characters, developing innovative techniques of animation and puppetry alongside his friend and co-producer Peter Firmin. Amazingly, almost all of Oliver's films were made in a cowshed in Kent on a budget of next to nothing.
But the path to film-making was far from conventional, or even planned. Oliver Postgate was the grandson of George Lansbury, leader of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and his father was Raymond Postgate, who became famous as the founder and author of The Good Food Guide. Oliver followed in neither's footsteps. Before his first TV production, Alexander the Mouse in 1958, he had already been a war evacuee; a conscientious objector; a farm labourer; a relief worker in post-war Germany; an artist; an actor; and an inventor.
The story of Oliver Postgate's extraordinary and adventurous life, and the wonderful characters who populated it, both real and imagined, is witty, charming, beautifully remembered and beautifully told.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- 1. Stroking Bees
- 2. A House, Three Schools and A War
- 3. Stirring It Up
- 4. Rural Pursuits
- 5. The Honey-Barrel
- 6. Treading the Boards
- 7. Rattling the Bars
- 8. Starting Again
- 9. Smallfilms
- 10. Taking Time
- 11. Mainstream
- 12. Colouring In
- 13. Looking Outwards
- 14. Looking Inwards
- 15. The Window
- 16. Africa and After
- 17. Decade of Dementia
- 18. Changing Direction
- Afterword
- Copyright