Oliver Postgate has died aged 83. Nothing on any news sites as yet....

[EachPeachPearMum]

but Dragon Friendly Society has this

Feel bereft.

Awwwww

RIP Oliver

Oh, how sad. Bless him.

Ivor the Engine used to really cheer me up when ds was tiny and I'd been up in the night.

Looked him up on wiki and it turns out he was a conscientious objector in WW2

Oh!

What a legend - we still watch Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, on DVD and Youtube with DS, and they're still great.

I'll always think of him when I'm in the top left-hand corner of Wales.

Oh no, how sad, I read his autobiography a few years back and such a lovely, wise and gentle man.

I love Noggin the Nog best. I was kicking myself that I missed his desert Island discs last year.

I thought he's only created Bagpuss!

You learn something new every day!

he was so cool.

So sad but how amazing for his family to think that his work touched the lives of so many children. What a legacy to leave behind.

Bagpuss and The Clangers are among the first flickering black-and-white TV I ever remember watching, sitting on a rug...

(Yes, I know they were made in colour, but we only had B&W for years... I always thought Bagpuss was orange and didn't find out until my 20s that he was PINK!)

Oh!

He had such a lovely voice too...

They will prob repeat his DID, EachPeach - I will be looking out for it now

You know there are some people whose lives are so interesting & personalities so lovely they were born to star on DID! (like him, & Posy Simmonds, & Shirley Hughes, & Roger McGough. I could listen to theirs over & over again)

What a loss.

How sad! I haev just bought DS the full colour Ivor the Engine DVD for Crimbo - he loves it! (he's only 1 and already has good taste). Love the Clangers and Noggin the Nog too (never really got into Bagpuss).

Sad for his family, hard to lose someone so close to Christmas.

ponders yes- I hope they do. It's still not announced on BBC though- have had R4 on all night.
I must have missed Post Simmonds too - I love her. Its on at such naff times I find!

I have such a fixed image of Bagpuss in my mind from childhood that I always think he looks somehow wrong in shops - he should be very faded, almost...black and white

MadameOvary - fab name! Yes Bagpuss is black and white

How sad that he is gone. He was very talented.

I am really sad about this.

Oliver Postgate's lovely programmes were the backdrop to my childhood.

When they played a bit of him speaking on R4 this morning it took me straight back.

Pogle's Wood is one of the first things I can remember.

why was his stuff so great? was it because he actually managed to find things that both a 3 year old and their parents could laugh at without being too "knowing" like shrek? Think was also you knew that characters like noggin, bagpus and jones the steam would always make things alright in the end even though you could laugh at them.

how very sad - we was the voice of my childhood television...we have put our big Bagpuss on the bed in honour of him today

his shows calmed down children, complete opposite of kid's tv now. very sad