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SEEING THINGS

A MEMOIR - OLIVER POSTGATE

Children’s imaginations must be fed, should be shaped by positive and nurturing cultural forces.

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There is a generation out there, having had childhood foisted upon them during the late 1950s and through the following decade of the 1960s, that now smiles wistfully at the mention of Noggin, Olaf The Lofty and Graculus; Ivor and Jones The Steam and their daily adventures in that top left-hand corner of Wales; the yodelling Clangers and their Soup Dragon; and that saggy old cloth cat, the mouse organ and Professor Yaffle, the very distinguished old woodpecker.

When Oliver Postgate, the uniquely British genius behind all these characters, died in December 2008 the grateful acknowledgement from the media industry and public alike was deeply affecting, none more so than Charlie Brooker’s very moving and poetic tribute on BBC4’s Screenwipe that same month.

Smallfilms, the company that produced these films for child Amazon.com: Seeing Things: A Memoir eBook : Postgate, Oliver ...

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