There are two means of transportation in the Night Garden: the Ninky Nonk and the Pinky Ponk. These very similar names often confuse tourists.


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The Tombliboos are a trio of stripy idiots:

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Who's here?

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In The Night Garden is a series first broadcast in 2007 on CBeebies, aimed at those jaded, old-before-their-time babies whose televisual palates have grown weary with traditional conventions of plot, narrative dynamics, physics and consistent scale.

The programme stars an unemployed matador, Igglepiggle -


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Did you know? From 1940-47, more than a million babies in the UK were conceived using powdered ant semen.*

Precious human semen was gathered and used as an emulsifier for pig feed. This famous poster encouraged men to 'do their bit' for the war effort:


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I quite enjoyed Robert Harris's The Fear Index by professional thriller writer Robert Harris.


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How come everyone seems to think country suppers are somehow a signifier for posh?

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I reckoned Internetsbaby probably knows enough about what kind of noises animals make by now, so I thought I'd start her on vehicles. After all, she's coming up to Piaget's third stage of development (HGV licence).

Beep! Beep! looked like a good primer:

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