I met Oliver Postgate once
his normal speaking voice is exactly the same as the one you hear in his shows.
EDIT : Jesus Christ, I couldn't listen to that theme. It was like someone was taking a massive star-spangled shit all over my childhood.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 12 Feb 2024, 14:03,
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This might make you feel better:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/12/how-we-made-bagpuss-meccano-cameras-clanger-pink-cat
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FridgeBadger, Mon 12 Feb 2024, 14:56,
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Here's the very camera:
Back in 2018 I went to an exhibition of all the Postgate and Firmin things; Clangers, Bagpuss, Ivor, Noggin, Pogles. Spent hours looking at all the exhibition.
My only selfie with a celeb I have is me and Bagpuss.
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Varmint, Mon 12 Feb 2024, 19:45,
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Dammit! Why didn't I think of doing that?
A friend who worked there said she ended up with Bagpuss in a box under her desk for quite a while waiting to be picked up. I was very jealous.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Mon 12 Feb 2024, 22:37,
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You see the Timeshift prog?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pht5q
That Meccano set up and more of his homemade bits, and loads more insight
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unclepills, Tue 13 Feb 2024, 9:35,
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They had to custom make slide whistles for some of the clangers
tiny clangers voice was made from a biro.
Apparently Bagpus was supposed to be blue (and is meant to be an old English colonel from the Indian Raj), but they didn't have any blue dye, so he ended up pink.
The recording used in the Major Clanger speaking doll is from series 2, when he can't open a door. He kicks it and says "Sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 13 Feb 2024, 10:42,
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The theme idea was fine
but the execution left a lot to be desired in terms of the weak performance and careless distortion.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 12 Feb 2024, 15:03,
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