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Here is my tribute to Oliver Postgate the co-creator of many classic children’s Television series such as Bagpuss, The Clangers, Noggin the Nog, Pogles’ Wood, Ivor the Engine, and many more, who sadly passed away recently.

He was born in Hendon, Middlesex on 12 April 1925, and married his wife Prudence Myers in 1957, whith whom he had three children, sadly though she died in 1982 and His partner during the last years of his life was Naomi Linnell. He is survived by three sons and three step-sons.

As the co-creator of the animated programmes , Oliver Postgate was one of a handful of pioneers who turned children’s television into an art form and whose legacy is a warm nostalgia felt by grown-ups today. His calm tones were familiar as narrator of the stories, which he wrote himself and were brought to visual reality by the artist and puppeteer Peter Firmin.

Here are episodes 1 to 6 of one of Oliver Postgate’s best known series Ivor the Engine courtesy of YouTube

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWk0BCeblQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZMNyscPcg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2j_RI2rL0

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hFcDe4ETPv0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT3ZFG71QZg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FZHKkHOlzl8