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Oliver Postgate (born 1925, Hendon, Middlesex, England) is a British animator, puppeteer and writer. Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other places with the same name, see Hendon (disambiguation). ...
The Middlesex Guildhall at Westminster Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and was the second smallest (after Rutland). ...
Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 927 AD Area - Total 130...
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A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a puppet— in real time to create the illusion of life. ...
A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
He is the creator and writer of some of the most popular children's television programmes ever seen in Britain. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The 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 most popular children's programme of all time. Childrens television shows are television programs designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ...
Pingwings was an animated black and white childrens television series of 18 ten-minute episodes broadcast in the UK during the early 1960s. ...
External links Jennys Pogles Wood Page This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...
Noggin the Nog was a popular British childrens television series originally shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom during the years 1959 to 1965. ...
Ivor the Engine was the first animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmins Smallfilms company. ...
The Clangers is a British stop motion animated childrens television series made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker, animator and illustrator). ...
Bagpuss and the mice For the village, see Kingston Bagpuize. ...
Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator). ...
Peter Firmin was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
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Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
Life His father was Raymond Postgate and his mother Daisy Lansbury, making him the cousin of actress Angela Lansbury and grandson of Labour politician, George Lansbury; some of whose principles he inherited, to the extent that he was prepared to go to prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, as his father had done in 1916. His other grandfather was the Latin classicist John Percival Postgate. Raymond William Postgate (November 6, 1896 - March 29, 1971) was an English socialist journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet. ...
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress, best-known for playing mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote. ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
Under a cloud (with a silver lining). ...
It has been suggested that Conscientious objection throughout the world be merged into this article or section. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
John Percival Postgate (October 24, 1853 - July 15, 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920. ...
Subsequently he did a number of different jobs, never really finding his niche until he entered into a collaboration with Firmin, who built most of the models used in the various [[animation]gs. Setting up their business in a disused cowshed (note: this is cited as a "converted pigsty" by the BBC Desert Island Discs - no link as yet) pif in Canterbury, Kent, Postgate and Firmin worked on children's programmes based on concepts and scripts which mostly originated with Postgate. He was also the narrator for all the Smallfilms productions, as well as many minor productions including the WereBear story tapes, and his distinctive voice became familiar to generations of children. Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...
coat of Arms of Kent For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ...
Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator). ...
WereBears were plush stuffed toy bears, created by George Nicholas Creations in 1983. ...
Postgate married Prudence Myers in 1957, becoming step-father to her three children (Kevan, Kerris and Krispian). The couple had twins in 1959 (Stephen and Simon); and another son in 1964 (Daniel). Prudence died in 1982.
In the 1970s and 1980s Postgate was active in the Anti-nuclear campaign, addressing meetings and writing several pamphlets including The Writing on the Sky.
In 1986, in collaboration with the historian Naomi Linnell, Postgate painted a 50ft long Illumination of the Life and Death of Thomas Becket for a book of the same name. This is now in the archive of the Canterbury Museum. In 1990 he painted a similar work on Christopher Columbus for a book entitled The Triumphant Failure. His voice was heard once more in 2003, as narrator for Alchemists of Sound, a television documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995. ...
The University of Kent at Canterbury awarded Postgate an honorary degree in 1987 and A Canterbury Chronicle, a triptych by Postgate commissioned in 1990 hangs in the Great Hall of Eliot College on the University's Canterbury campus.[1] The University of Kent is a plate glass campus university in Kent, England. ...
An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum, not to be confused with an honors degree) is an academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ...
His autobiography, Seeing Things, was published in 2000. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
On 15th July 2007, he was guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. ...
Publications - Seeing Things: An Autobiography, Oliver Postgate; illustrated by Peter Firmin, 2000 - ISBN 0-330-39000-7
References For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
November 29 is the 333rd day of the year (334th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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