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This Week's Guest:
Oliver Postgate
15 July 2007
Repeated
20 July 2007 |
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Oliver's Choice |
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Kirsty Young’s castaway this week is the animator Oliver Postgate.
As the creator of Noggin the Nog,The Clangers and Bagpuss, Oliver holds a special place in many childhoods. So it may come as something of a surprise that he never thought about how his programmes would be received by children; instead he says he simply focussed on making the stories great – everything else was secondary.
For twenty years he toiled in a converted pigsty in Kent, animating the characters Peter Firmin drew, churning out 120 seconds of film a day. He says a respectable average for an animation company now would be 2 seconds!
Oliver’s own childhood was a lonely one; ignored by his busy parents and sent to an experimental school he hated. He says that to this day, he has no meaning unless he is doing something; and this is a direct legacy of his desperation to be noticed as a child. |
1. Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F Major
Performer The Bath Festival Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin
Composer Bach
CD Title Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1- Bath Festival Orch
Track 7
Label EMI CLASSICS
Rec No: 5754012
2. The Lass with the Delicate Air
Performer Josh White
Composer Arne
CD Title Ballads & Blues
Track Trk 1
Label BRUNSWICK
Rec No: LA8562
3. Summer Evening
Performer The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Composer Frederick Delius
CD Title Delius - Orchestral Works
Track 9
Label EMI CLASSICS
Rec No: 67553
4. When the Saints Come Marching In
Performer Pete Fountain
Composer Trad
CD Title Pete Fountain’s New Orleans
Track 3
Label CORAL
Rec: No 57
5. Graculus’s Memory Music
Performer The Vernon Elliott Ensemble
Composer Vernon Elliott
CD Title Graculus’s Memory Music
Track 1
PRIVATE TAPE
No 6. Steppe, Oh Steppe Around
Performer Pyatnitsky State Russian Folk Choir
Composer Trad
CD Title Moonlight Over Moscow
Track 10
Label BMG
Rec No: 32043
7. Introspection Two
Performer Thijs Van Leer
Composer Rogier Van Otterloo
CD Title Thijs Van Leer/Introspection
Track Side 2 trk 2
Label CBS
Rec No: 65159
8. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
Performer Edith Piaf
Composer Vaucaire/Dumont
CD Title Edith Piaf: Legends of the 20th Century
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No: 5201422
Record: When the Saints Coming Marching in
Book: Huge book of English Poetry
Luxury: A comfortable bed |
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