RIP Oliver Postgate

On 9 Dec 2008, at 15:10, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Rafe Culpin wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7772620.stm
>
> I had something funny to say but the screen has gone all blurry.
>
> Firedrake R
> (baggy, and a bit loose at the seams)
> Web-comic: http://laager.firedrake.org/
>
>
I had the same problem this morning, I sent an email to one of the
people who help organise Firmin & Postgate's occasional talks. Asking
for condolences to be passed on. Couldn't see the much by the end of
writing.

'Today' were going to have a proper piece about him, but I was out of
house before it was on - I expect 'listen again' will have it though.
His passing was headline news though, and obviously something that
affected the presenters. A little bit of childhood left a lot of
people today.

Tim
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In Tim the Sane Scientist wrote:

>On 9 Dec 2008, at 15:10, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
>> Rafe Culpin wrote:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7772620.stm
>>
>> I had something funny to say but the screen has gone all blurry.
>>
>> Firedrake R
>> (baggy, and a bit loose at the seams)
>> Web-comic: http://laager.firedrake.org/
>>
>>
>I had the same problem this morning, I sent an email to one of the
>people who help organise Firmin & Postgate's occasional talks. Asking
>for condolences to be passed on. Couldn't see the much by the end of
>writing.
>
>'Today' were going to have a proper piece about him, but I was out of
>house before it was on - I expect 'listen again' will have it though.
>His passing was headline news though, and obviously something that
>affected the presenters. A little bit of childhood left a lot of
>people today.

We haven't lost that bit of childhood, though. Noggin the Nog is still
there, and the Clangers, and Ivor the Engine, and Bagpuss. We won't have
any more of them, but we were not going to anyway, were we?

I am sad that he has died, but it isn't a complete sense of loss, as it were.

Beetle

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In Firedrake R wrote:

>Beetle wrote:
>
>>We haven't lost that bit of childhood, though. Noggin the Nog is still
>>there, and the Clangers, and Ivor the Engine, and Bagpuss. We won't have
>>any more of them, but we were not going to anyway, were we?
>
>Absolutely.
>
>>I am sad that he has died, but it isn't a complete sense of loss, as it were.
>
>As with Joan Aiken or Robert Heinlein or...?

Each of whom I mourned as a person I knew. Thanks a bunch, 'drake. Oh,
and my parents, too. But I didn't notice a sort of national sob-fest for
any of them, with all the BBC news programmes having instant obituaries and
so forth. Did you?

>What we have most definitely lost is one of the few people who still
>thought like this: http://www.oliverpostgate.co.uk/archive1.html

Funny how nobody saw fit to point out any of his webstuff to me *before* he
died. I am not even convinced that had I asked last year, most of the
people now going 'Oh, no, an irreperable loss' would have been able to tell
me whether he was still alive or not.

A good man has died, but nothing is lost from my childhood, ok? Or have
you thrown all your DVDs of the Clangers and Bagpuss onto a ceremonial
pyre?

Funnily enough, I haven't burned all my Aiken and Heinlein books either. I
even (gasp!) still read other dead authors' work. Dickens, and Smollett,
and Chesterton...

Beetle

MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
collection of dog-legs and feet. Coffee mornings a speciality.
Recently made a Dame of the Village by Our Princess!
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Somewhere up above, in the endless blackness of space, there is a chorus of
what sounds suspiciously like swannee whistles, gently weeping, whilst down
below, a saggy old cloth cat settles down to sleep, and Emily (like the rest
of us) loved him.

Au Res.,
Paul
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--- On Tue, 12/9/08, anon2765.RemoveThis@firedrake.org wrote:

> From: anon2765.RemoveThis@firedrake.org
> Subject: Re: RIP Oliver Postgate
> To: alt.books.tom-holt.RemoveThis@firedrake.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 1:16 PM
> In
> Firedrake R wrote:
>
> >Beetle wrote:
> >
> >>We haven't lost that bit of childhood, though.
> Noggin the Nog is still
> >>there, and the Clangers, and Ivor the Engine, and
> Bagpuss. We won't have
> >>any more of them, but we were not going to anyway,
> were we?
> >
> >Absolutely.
> >
> >>I am sad that he has died, but it isn't a
> complete sense of loss, as it were.
> >
> >As with Joan Aiken or Robert Heinlein or...?
>
> Each of whom I mourned as a person I knew. Thanks a bunch,
> 'drake. Oh,
> and my parents, too. But I didn't notice a sort of
> national sob-fest for
> any of them, with all the BBC news programmes having
> instant obituaries and
> so forth. Did you?
>
> >What we have most definitely lost is one of the few
> people who still
> >thought like this:
> http://www.oliverpostgate.co.uk/archive1.html
>
> Funny how nobody saw fit to point out any of his webstuff
> to me *before* he
> died. I am not even convinced that had I asked last year,
> most of the
> people now going 'Oh, no, an irreperable loss'
> would have been able to tell
> me whether he was still alive or not.
>
> A good man has died, but nothing is lost from my childhood,
> ok? Or have
> you thrown all your DVDs of the Clangers and Bagpuss onto a
> ceremonial
> pyre?
>
> Funnily enough, I haven't burned all my Aiken and
> Heinlein books either. I
> even (gasp!) still read other dead authors' work.
> Dickens, and Smollett,
> and Chesterton...
>
Deep sympathy is extended to all his fans. I've never seen any of those programs but have printed the post on "Does Children's Television Matter?" Once we've enjoyed it, I'll pass it on to my son & daughter-in-law as guidance for the grandbaby's viewing.

I'm also chuckling because nearby the husband is watching an episode of "G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Commonsense", which is one of his all time favorite programs.

Jackie
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