{"id":3150,"date":"2024-02-13T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:23:12","slug":"bagpuss-is-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/02\/13\/bagpuss-is-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagpuss is 50!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/bagpuss-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3151\" width=\"207\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/bagpuss-1.jpg 719w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/bagpuss-1-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 85vw, 207px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bagpuss, the most magical, saggy, old, cloth cat in the whole wide world, is 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children&#8217;s show first aired on 12 February 1974. Made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, Bagpuss lived in a shop that was a home for lost property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 13 episodes were ever made, the programme and it has remained a much-loved watch down the generations and was voted the all-time favourite children&#8217;s programme in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bagpuss would come to life after Emily left the animals alone, with the film then changing from sepia to colour. And when Bagpuss awoke, so did his friends: Professor Yaffle the woodpecker bookend, Gabriel the toad and Madeleine the rag doll, as well as the musical mice on their magical mouse organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/pogles-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3154\" width=\"134\" height=\"125\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/noggin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3155\" width=\"136\" height=\"101\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/ivor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3156\" width=\"152\" height=\"101\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate also created \u2018Pogle\u2019s Wood\u2019, \u2018Noggin the Nog\u2019, &#8216;Ivor the Engine&#8217; and the editor\u2019s all-time favourites (which she knits!) \u2018The Clangers\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/clangers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3157\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bagpuss, the most magical, saggy, old, cloth cat in the whole wide world, is 50. The children&#8217;s show first aired on 12 February 1974. Made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, Bagpuss lived in a shop that was a home for lost property. Only 13 episodes were ever made, the programme and it has remained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/02\/13\/bagpuss-is-50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bagpuss is 50!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}