Bagpuss creator dies
Updated on 09 December 2008
The grandson of a founder of the Labour Party, who was once imprisoned as a conscientious objector, dies at 83.
Bagpuss creator dies
It's probably only a question of age as to whether you consider Oliver Postgate's best work to be Bagpuss or the Clangers, or even Ivor the Engine.
Almost everyone who grew up watching children's television from the 1960s to the 1980s was deeply affected by the creations of the man who wrote, narrated and filmed them on homemade equipment in a cowshed in Kent.
Postgate will be long remembered for his slightly surreal but ever gentle animations.
Blog tributes to Bagpuss creator
There has been an outpouring of tributes online to the creator of Bagpuss, Oliver Postgate, whose death was announced today.
Here are just some of them:
The eccentric genius behind Bagpuss, Noggin The Nog, The Clangers, The Pogles, and Ivor The Engine has passed away, aged 83. For my generation, Oliver Postgate was a major part of our childhood.
www.heropress.net
Oliver and his partner, Peter Firmin, were responsible for the animations of my own and my children's childhood. Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, The Clangers and Bagpuss are classics.
www.animationblog.org
I have had an obsession with all things Bagpuss and Clangers since I was a tiny tot, thanks to early morning repeats on Channel 4. So it was with much sadness that I heard this morning that Oliver Postgate, who created those programmes
otherstories.typepad.com/other_stories
Not strictly pop music related, but undoubtedly worthy of a respectful nod here anyways. News of Oliver Postgate's passing was greeted with genuine sadness here at Electric Roulette, as it will be across the country.
www.electricroulette.com
Many of our readers abroad may not know the name, but I strongly suspect the news has hit the hearts of millions here in Britain for the simple reason that Postgate, along with his Smallfilms partner Peter Firmin, is directly responsible for decades of happy, childhood memories through their delightful, eccentric, imaginative and enchanting animations which have graced screens since the 1950s.
forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog
Oh dear. Who is going to help Grandma Clanger knit the tinsel string for Christmas now? Oliver Postgate, co-creator of The Clangers and, some might argue, genius, has died at the age of 83.
timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy
I know banal and repetitive reminiscences about 1970s childhoods are a staple of stand-up comics, novelists and TV talking heads these days, but I couldn't let the death of animator extraordinaire Oliver Postgate, aged 83, go unmarked.
polyolbion.blogspot.com
You know you're getting gold when the people who made the TV programmes you liked as a kid start dying. So, farewell, Oliver Postgate, creator of Ivor the Engine and, of course, the immortal Bagpuss.
www.debatableland.com/the_debatable_land
Listening to the comments on Radio 5 Live this morning, there seems to be something of a national consensus that a little bit of our collective childhood has died with the passing of Oliver Postgate.
darlingtoncouncillor.blogspot.com
