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Bagpuss is a British animated children's television series which was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of thirteen episodes was first broadcast from
Some of the characters from Bagpuss
The original Bagpuss puppet in the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge in Canterbury, June 2018.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, and social reformer.
Bagpuss
…his can without the use of stop-motion animation. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met). Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed…
Russell in 1936
Russell as a 4-year-old
Childhood home, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, London
Russell at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1891