RIP Oliver Postgate

[ffutures]

BBC news just said that Oliver Postgate (The Clangers, Noggin the Nog, etc.) died yesterday aged 83. He'll be missed.

Comments

[pete-darby.livejournal.com]

(dons jacket of smug fannish judgement)

IN the Canterbury museum, a large part of it is given over to Smallfilms (run from a barn just outside town); most of the original models are there (as well as the original Basil Brush), and it's well worth a visit for people of a certain age, reminding you of just how much of my mental furniture was rented from Mr Postgate as a child.

On the other hand, my partner once treated Oliver Postgate in hospital, and he was foul to her. But being the man behind Bagpuss gets you a lot of latitude as goes my opinion of someone. So yes, he will be missed.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

oooh, another reason to visit Canterbury.

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

You look incredibly familiar. Do I know you? You don't know Mike Strefford, do you?

[pete-darby.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I know... I get this sort of thing a lot, and suspect I may be one of the final five models of Cylon...

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

I'd like the world and I to come to some sort of arrangement. I'll stop threatening to blow up the planet if people stop dying.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I doubt that you're going to win on this one...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Oh, that *is* sad news. I met him very briefly years (decades) ago at a CND rally he addressed in Exeter. His address was brilliant; he seemed charming.