Flower Pot Men
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Flower Pot Men is a British programme for young children produced by BBC Television. It was first transmitted in 26 episodes from 1952 to 1953, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years. A rem
Still from original BBC series, with Little Weed (centre)
Peter Hawkins
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Peter John Hawkins was a British actor whose career spanned from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Following his breakthrough in Royal Navy theatre performances subsequent to his survival of the sinki
Flower Pot Men
…music and narrated, puppeteers Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson, and singers Gladys Whitred and Julia Whitaker (nee Williams). The only new member was Peter Hawkins, who voiced both Bill and Ben, inventing their gibberish language, named Oddle-Poddle. He based the language on select words such as "Slogalog" (Slowcoach…
Hawkins in 1996