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The Babies

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Cosmic comedy connections. Spoof documentary stretching the truth. Oliver Postgate narrates. With Miriam Margolyes. From 1995.

Links between cheese sculpture, pavement privatisation, skirting boards and the great knitting reform act.

Animator and voice of Bagpuss and the Clangers, Oliver Postgate island-hops through a stream of bizarre coincidences.

Ben Moor鈥檚 cosmic comedy of connections.

With:

Miriam Margolyes
Dan Strauss
Kerry Shale
Michael Simkins
Gary Waldhorn
Alan Dedicoat
Hugh Scully
James Naughtie

Producer: Jon Naismith

First broadcast on 蘑菇短视频 Radio 4 in May 1995

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