Oliver Postgate

Richard Oliver Postgate 12 April 1925 8 December 2008 generally known as Oliver Postgate was an English animator puppeteer and writer He was the creator and writer of some of Britains most popular childrens television programmes Pingwings Pogles Wood Noggin the Nog Ivor the Engine 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 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular childrens television programme of all time Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia