Yahoo Lifestyle Bagpuss creator's son to celebrate centenary
The son of children's television creator Oliver Postgate, who made Bagpuss, is celebrating 100 years since his father's birth by sharing the stories behind the shows.
Mr Postgate, together with Peter Firmin, created iconic children's TV shows from the 1960s and 70s including Ivor the Engine, Clangers, Pogles' Wood and Bagpuss.
Now Simon Postgate is celebrating his father's shows with five talks at the Alexander Centre in Faversham, Kent, about how they were made and shot in the studios of Small Films at Blean near Canterbury.
He said: "There are various sorts of characters who were obviously him."
He added: "He was a bit like Mr Pogle, Noggin the Nog, Jones the Steam and of course Major Clanger the inventor."
Mr Postgate's show Clangers, which featured knitted characters living on the moon, first broadcast in November 1969, a few months after the first moon landing.
His son said: "For the Clangers, it begins with me opening the front door and finding my dad with the room completely dark except for the curtains, which were drawn, and he was looking out at the full moon in the night sky and listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at full volume."
He explained how he gave his father the idea for the series after telling him about a giant that lived on the dark side of the moon and drank soup from the middle with a straw.
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