Oliver Postgate, December 8, 2008
Oliver Postgate has passed away. He made some very lovely television shows. Bagpuss, The Clangers, and Ivor the Engine among them.
His characters were charming and anarchic. They lived in worlds like our own that had their own skewed logic.
His television shows were the most popular children’s shows in Britain ever. They were made in a small shed in Kent, with homemade equipment, the main ingredients being imagination and love.
When all those Bratz and High School Musical DVDs are landfill, people will still love Bagpuss, and so, Oliver Postgate, a very good man, will live on.