What is Oliver Postgate?
{{Infobox person | name = Oliver Postgate | birth_name = Richard Oliver Postgate | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1925|4|12}} | birth_place = [[Hendon]], [[Middlesex]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2008|12|8|1925|4|12}} | death_place = [[Broadstairs]], Kent, England | occupation = Animator, [[puppeteer]], writer | spouse = Prudence Myers (1957–1982; her death) | partner = Naomi Linnell (1985–2008, his death) | children = {{plainlist| * Stephen Postgate * Simon Postgate * Daniel Postgate }} | family = [[Postgate family]] | relatives = [[John Postgate (microbiologist)|John Postgate]] (brother)<br>[[John Percival Postgate]] (paternal grandfather)<br>[[John Postgate (food safety campaigner)|John Postgate]] (great grandfather)<br>[[George Lansbury]] (maternal grandfather)<br>[[Margaret Cole]] (paternal aunt)<br>[[Edgar Lansbury (politician)|Edgar Lansbury]] (maternal uncle)<br>[[Angela Lansbury]] (cousin)<br>[[Bruce Lansbury]] (cousin)<br> [[Edgar Lansbury (producer)|Edgar Lansbury]] (cousin) | parents = [[Raymond Postgate]]<br/>Daisy Lansbury }} '''Richard Oliver Postgate''' (12 April 1925&nbsp;– 8 December 2008), generally known as '''Oliver Postgate''', was an [[English people|English]] [[animator]], [[puppeteer]] and writer. He made several series of children’s programmes for British television. They all became very popular. They include ''[[Pingwings]]'', ''[[Pogles' Wood]]'', ''[[Noggin the Nog]]'', ''[[Ivor the Engine]]'', ''[[Clangers]]'' and ''[[Bagpuss]]''. They were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with [[Peter Firmin]]. They were shown on the [[BBC]] between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 poll, ''Bagpuss'' was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time. ==His life== ===Early life=== He was born in Hendon, Middlesex, England. He went to Woodstock School and Woodhouse Count