The Lands of the North lie dark today
You created worlds and characters that warmed the heart and have forever coloured the British childhood. Saggy cloth cats and strange knitted aliens with piping voices, noble Vikings, honourable engine drivers and friendly dragons populated the landscape of your imagination - and, generously, you shared them all with us - with wide eyed children, captivated by a combination of simple images and stunning story telling.
Thank you.
Thank you for Bagpuss, and Professor Yaffle and the Mouse organ. Thank you for Noggin, and for Thor Nogson and even for Nogbad the Bad. Thank you for the Clangers, for the Soup dragon and for blue string pudding. Thank you for the Poggles and the Pingwings, and for Ivor the engine and his Welsh dragon. Thank you for gentle magic and generous creativity.
RIP, Oliver Postgate.
