Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate was the creator of Bagpuss, the Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog. His autobiography depicts his passage from grinning show-off to grisly old git, a journey that included not only a prison sentence but also a thirty-year period working with Peter Firmin in cow-shed and pig-sty, making small films. Oliver died on 8 December, 2008

Articles by Oliver Postgate

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FIFTY YEARS OF WHAT?

  • 20 February 2008

An exchange of atom bombs is nothing but a festival of mutual suicide - Oliver Postgate continues his God dialogues

DIVINE LAW

  • 18 February 2008

The separation between law and religious injunction has got to be absolute and stay that way, otherwise fear will come back into the land

WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEYGONE?

  • 11 February 2008

Oliver Postgate makes a welcome return to newstatesman.com relating a dialogue between god and the devil about cash

The last dilemma

  • 16 March 2007
  • 3 comments

The Clangers creator highlights humankind's crucial choice

Politicians cannot save the world

  • 16 February 2007
  • 2 comments

Oliver ponders the dangers faced by the world

Three cheers for the New Statesman

  • 29 January 2007

The Clangers and Bagpuss creator urges you all to pray that it's not too late to tackle global warming

The economics of conquest

  • 02 January 2007
  • 2 comments

Only a reinvigorated United Nations can bring the world's aggressors to heel

Oliver's Christmas message

  • 19 December 2006

A poem in true keeping with the spirit of the season

The Four Feedbacks of the Apocalypse

  • 12 December 2006

A call to guard our future and the future of our children against the self inducing effects of global warming

What is Trident?

  • 05 December 2006
  • 3 comments

Why the government should bide its time over the UK's nuclear deterrent

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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