{"id":3979,"date":"2013-10-27T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2013-10-27T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T08:06:02","slug":"a-plea-to-the-bbc-please-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/uncategorised\/a-plea-to-the-bbc-please-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"A plea to the BBC\u2026 please get it right."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The Clangers was just the best TV ever made. Ever!!!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I read the other day that the BBC is about to do a remake of the Clangers.<\/p>\n

For those of you who did not grow up in the UK in the late 60\u2019s \u2013 the Clangers are small pink knitted aliens who live on – or rather mostly inside – a very small planet not far from Earth. They talk\u00a0in whistles.<\/p>\n

They are \/ were just magical.<\/p>\n

I was a late comer to the Clangers.\u00a0They didn\u2019t have them when I was growing up in Australia,\u00a0but I fell in love with them the moment I saw them, and promptly wrote a short story about Clangers (which you can read here<\/a>) <\/p>\n

A creation of the wonderfully talented Oliver Postgate \u2013 the Clangers had a simple honesty and innocence and a wicked sense of humour.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The late Oliver Postgate and friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The production was not sophisticated \u2013 and in this day of computer generated wiz-bangery, those old films look pretty crusty. But even now they have not lost their magic.<\/p>\n

The BBC is planning to revive them with original co-creator Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate\u2019s son, Daniel.<\/p>\n

They are promising new stories and\u00a0have promised to be careful to preserve the original magic of the show.<\/p>\n

I hope they will also be respectful – not just of the Clangers, but also of the children inside all of us who love these funny pink creatures.<\/p>\n

I beg of you, BBC \u2013 do not become over enthusiastic about flash new animation techniques.<\/p>\n

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\"If<\/a>
If the BBC has forgotten how to make the Clangers, there are instructions available on several websites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Clangers were all about the stories. Simple stories that touched our hearts with the notes of a swanee whistle.<\/p>\n

Please, BBC \u2013 make sure you give me back the same Tiny Clanger, and Major Clanger and the Soup Dragon and the Iron Chicken and Hoots that I love.<\/p>\n

\"There's<\/a>
There’s Clanger (and friends) living in my TV room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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