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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Life & Society
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
Life & Society
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
Business
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
Television
The last dilemma
- 16 March 2007
- 3 comments
The Clangers creator highlights humankind's crucial choice
Life & Society
Politicians cannot save the world
- 16 February 2007
- 2 comments
Oliver ponders the dangers faced by the world
UK Politics
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
UK Politics
The economics of conquest
- 02 January 2007
- 2 comments
Only a reinvigorated United Nations can bring the world's aggressors to heel
Poetry
Oliver's Christmas message
- 19 December 2006
A poem in true keeping with the spirit of the season
UK Politics
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
UK Politics
What is Trident?
- 05 December 2006
Why the government should bide its time over the UK's nuclear deterrent
