Oliver Postgate

Person · Open Library

Born

1925

Died

2008

Works

85

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1925-04-12

Active to

2008-12-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

75

Total plays

471

Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 poll <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Oliv

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

   · 2012 · cited 28,469x

2. An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments

   · 1992 · cited 24,477x

3. Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes

   · 1991 · cited 22,376x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,411x

5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,391x

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Quotes

• “We would go to the BBC once a year, show them the films we'd made, and they would say, "Yes, lovely, now what are you going to do next?" We would tell them, and they would say, "That sounds fine, we'll mark it in for eighteen months from now", and we would be given praise and encouragement and some money in advance.”
• “Their [politicians] words and phrases are skillfully chosen to keep us complacent and confident in our fairly comfortable world. We don’t usually notice this because ours is a world in which whether or not the words we are offered are true rarely makes much difference to our lives. But, out in the real world, the way words are used or misused can make the difference between life and death.”

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Wikidata facts

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