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Clangers' soup-er TV return Edition 2
The man who co-created the Clangers says it is \"exciting\" the creatures - who eat blue string soup - will be able to do so much more when they return to TV next month.
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Clangers' soup-er TV return
The man who co-created the Clangers says it is \"exciting\" the creatures - who eat blue string soup - will be able to do so much more when they return to TV next month.
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Clangers' souper TV return Edition 3
The man who co-created the Clangers says it is \"exciting\" the creatures - who eat blue string soup - will be able to do so much more when they return to TV next month.
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Review: Theatre: Bagpuss Soho, London 2/5
Bagpuss was so exquisite that this version has its delights - and not just for the middle-aged kids in the audience. My children, aged one and three, have yet to see the original and they were mesmerised. The performers, Susan Harrison and Georgina Sowerby, deliver perfect replicas of the mice's \"We will fix it\" tune and Professor Yaffle's scathing \"nyiff nyiff\", and lively renditions of the porcupine pincushion and ballet-shoe boat songs.
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Ivor the Engine, Dai Station and Jones the Steam found still whistling
\"Although Dad made the shows again in colour in the 1970s, I suspect these earlier outings will in due course come to be seen as the 'real' Ivors.\" He was also behind children's classics Bagpuss and The Clangers and came up with the idea of Ivor the Engine after a \"eureka moment\" in the bath. He also said that he had been \"slated\" for his Welsh accents on the programmes and admitted they were \"pretty appalling\", but that the Welsh had taken the show to their hearts.
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When the top brass want to ban the bomb
As so often, it has been left to Private Eye to draw our attention to an unsavoury truth - in this case that Mr Richard Desmond, or Dirty Des as the magazine affectionately refers to him, is not really a suitable person to be given control of one of our major TV channels, ie Five. One obvious reason, of course, is that Desmond's experience of TV to date consists in putting on what is politely referred to nowadays as \"adult entertainment\", the nature of which may be gleaned from the names of his programmes, eg Dirty Talk, Filth and Red Hot Fetish. It is now up to Ofcom to decide if that sort of thing disqualifies Dirty Des from taking over Five. The regulations state that they have to be satisfied that a successful applicant must be \"fit and proper\", but an Ofcom spokesman tells the Eye that this applies to a company, not an individual. Just how they can read that into the regulation may not be immediately apparent to the outside observer. But it suggests that all DD has to do is float a new company to make the application and the prize will be his. And if the only opposition comes from Private Eye, it's hard to see how he could fail.
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Critic's Choice
Another chance to see this portrait of the DIY animator who entranced generations of children from his garden shed in Kent, although some viewers recoiled from the melancholia of 'Noggin the Nog', 'The Clangers' and 'Bagpuss'. 'Tis the 30th anniversary of the awards show, with Robbie Williams up for an Outstanding Contribution to Music gong and Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Jay-Z and Cheryl Cole among the live acts. Peter Kay hosts.
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Critic's Choice
Soberly eschewing the scandals and the court cases, 'The Culture Show' attempts to evaluate Michael Jackson's impact on modern music. Were 'Bagpuss', 'Noggin the Nog', 'The Clangers' and other of [Oliver Postgate]'s much-cherished creations inspired by radical contemporary politics? That's one claim in this long-overdue profile of Postgate, who wrote and filmed his children's TV series from a converted pigsty in Kent.
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Pick of the day
Soberly eschewing the scandals, bizarre behaviour and the court cases, 'The Culture Show' attempts to evaluate Michael Jackson's impact on modern music. Were 'Bagpuss', 'Noggin the Nog', 'The Clangers' and [Oliver Postgate]'s other much-cherished creations inspired by radical contemporary politics? That's one claim in this long-overdue profile of Postgate, who, along with Peter Firmin, wrote and filmed his miraculous children's TV series from a converted pigsty in Kent.
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